Konstantinopolsky: Obsession - A Chess Biography of Vsevolod Rauzer (paperback) Klassiker and other elite competitors

and other elite competitors

while it received an ultimate seal of approval when Garry Kasparov used it as his main weapon to beat Vishy Anand in a World Championship match

the board and chessmen

and considering the problems Black has in the Queen's Indian

1 Siberian Wilderness

Konstantinopolsky: Obsession - A Chess Biography of Vsevolod Rauzer (paperback) Klassiker and other elite competitorsVsevolod 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,