Konstantinopolsky: Obsession - A Chess Biography of Vsevolod Rauzer (paperback) Studien “By far the best book

“By far the best book ever written on this opening

The result is a truly first-class presentation

giving his opinion on the background to the matches as well as the games themselves

one of the greatest chess players of all time

The English Opening was my first love and the opening that took me from amateur to International Master

Konstantinopolsky: Obsession - A Chess Biography of Vsevolod Rauzer (paperback) Studien “By far the best bookVsevolod Rauzer, born in Kiev in 1908, was one of the world's leading chess opening theoreticians and thinkers in the 1930s. As a player, he was an uncompromising attacker, trying to avoid draws as well as to prove that 1. e4 wins by force. According to Mikhail Botvinnik, His opening researchwith linked middlegame plans, gives us every reason to place V. Rauzer among the founders of the Soviet chess school. Awarded the Master of Sport title in 1929,