Bronstein David. Zurich International Chess Tournament 1953

Dover Publications, 1979. — 480 p. — ISBN: 0-486-23800-8.One of ever-bestsellers in chess 'Zurich international chess tournament 1953' by world famous David Bronstein. This book fills a significant gap in the English-language library of influential chess tournament books.Advanced players, many of whom have known about the tournament for years, will want this book for the games alone.Beginning and intermediate players, concerned more immediately with instruction, will find David Bronstein's annotations not only perceptive and thorough, but also a veritable textbook on how to play the middle game.This legendary tournament features 210 hotly contested games, many of them masterpieces of the first rank.The first authoritative English translation from the Russian, this volume was written by one of the leading competitors. Its perceptive coverage includes games by Smyslov, Keres, Reshevsky, Petrosian, and 11 others. Algebraic notation. 352 diagrams.