{"title":"Molodaïa Gvardia","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"le-tournoi-des-espoirs-des-echecs","title":"Турнир шахматных надежд [The Chess Hopefuls Tournament]","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eKHENKINE, Victor Lvovitch. Турнир шахматных надежд [The Tournament of Chess Hopes].\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003eMoscow, Molodaïa Gvardia\u003c\/em\u003e, 1973.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOctavo (202 x 128 mm). 46 pp., (1) f.\u003cbr\u003ePaperback, publisher's illustrated wrappers.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFirst edition, the only one published, with two signatures of Russian chess grandmasters. The Lothar Schmid copy.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAn account of a tournament pitting the established Soviet elite against their juniors: Smyslov, Tal, Petrosian, Spassky and Bronstein on one side, and on the other the young Anatoly Karpov together with a generation of future grandmasters: Chekhov, Kochiev, Dvoiris, Zaitchik. Two years later, Karpov was world champion.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eViktor Khenkine (1923-2010), a chess master, was at the time one of the leading chess journalists in the USSR: he was a columnist for Moskovsky Komsomolets, editorial secretary of Chakhmatnaia Moskva, then of the Bulletin of the Central Chess Club.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA copy bearing the autograph signatures of Mikhail Botvinnik (1911-1995), world champion, and of Elisaveta Bykova (1913-1989)\u003c\/strong\u003e, women's world champion from 1953 to 1956 and again from 1958 to 1962, one on the verso of the front cover, the other on the title page.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThese two names belong to the generation that the book portrays by contrast. Bykova had lost her title in 1962 to Nona Gaprindashvili, twenty-eight years her junior. Botvinnik had relinquished his the following year.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFrom the library of Lothar Schmid; his ex-libris.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Librairie Alexis Noqué","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":59021451002181,"sku":"0947","price":300.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0793\/8611\/6421\/files\/0947-khenkine-01.jpg?v=1787928493"}],"url":"https:\/\/www.librairie-alexisnoque.fr\/en\/collections\/editeur-molodaia-gvardia.oembed","provider":"Librairie Alexis Noqué","version":"1.0","type":"link"}