Chess talents of the soviet union (1): The rise of a superpower
The Soviet Union was a superpower in chess. From 1948, when the Soviet grandmaster Mikhail Botvinnik became the World Champion, to its collapse in 1991, the Soviet Union enjoyed hegemony in chess all the time, except for the three years when the World Champion title was in the hand of the American genius Bobby Fischer. …
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