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Trade Paperback 386 pages. Condition Very Good Issued with NO Dust Jacket. Presumed First English-language edition 2019. Nice illustrated wraps show off this Clean, tight, square copy with no marks, highlights or bookplates. Book Well kept and carefully stored in unread condition. Slight shelf wear - front cover and first 10 pages are wrinkled. Not an ex-library, book club or remainder copy.Yakov Vilner (1899-1931) was one of the leading Soviet chess masters in the 1920s. He won the Ukrainian championship three times (1924, 1925 and 1928), the Odessa championship five times (1918, 1923, 1925, 1926 and 1928) and competed in five USSR championships, his highest position being sixth equal in 1924. His attacking, combinational style delivered many memorable games and he regularly played against strong contemporaries such as Bogoljubov, Romanovsky, Bogatyrchuk, Verlinsky and an upcoming teenager called Botvinnik.
Vilner was also a leading chess composer. He won the USSR composition championship for… Leer más
