Konstantinopolsky: Obsession - A Chess Biography of Vsevolod Rauzer (paperback) Studien Saric covers the entire range

Saric covers the entire range of Sicilians

The result is a truly first-class presentation

An appendix summarizes the important information

the challenger Sergei Karjakin from Russia

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

Konstantinopolsky: Obsession - A Chess Biography of Vsevolod Rauzer (paperback) Studien Saric covers the entire rangeVsevolod 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,