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White to move and mate in two #405 -- From Ukraine With Love For Chess [1]
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Date: 2023-09-14
Contributions by
Vasyl Ivanchuk,
Ruslan Ponomariov,
Mariya and Anna Muzychuk and many,
many others.
Preface …
In your hands is the work of many authors and contributors. It was not a simple task, as it would be in normal circumstances. Some of them had fled from their homes without knowing what would happen on the next day. Some were hiding in a bomb shelter, trying to survive. But we managed to do it!
This book is not an Encyclopedia of all Ukrainian chess players. I am sure, for example, Vasyl Ivanchuk could write a book just with his own best games. But I hope that everyone can find something interesting here: middlegame ideas, complex positions for calculating, psychological tricks over the board, etc. What’s the secret of the ‘Ukrainian chess school’?
When I just started to learn chess as a small kid, replaying annotated brilliancies over the board was always inspiring for me, and it helped me to study and play better myself.
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Ruslan Ponomariov
Getxo, April 2022
Chapter 1: The Pioneers ...
Ray Keene wrote a classic biography on Leonid Stein called Master of Attack (1976). When Kotov praised Stein with a fine game in the Soviet tradition, Stein replied: ‘But I’m a Ukrainian!’ He was buried in Kyiv.
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That would be the Fischer era GM, Leonid Stein. The proceeds from sales of the book are headed to Ukrainian charities.
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