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This extremely rare pamphlet was edited by the former leading chess book dealer in the United States. It is taken from Russian sources.It covers the extremely strong international chess tournament in Parnu Estonia in 1947. There are brief annotations to a few games, and detailed notes to 4 games, 3 by Keres, and one by Bondarevsky. This book has never been sold at the Chess auction site, LSAK, and I could find only one (lesser) copy listed at the book search, addall.com, for $35.00. The pamphlet has lost the spine and has been restapled. The interior pages are fully intact. L/N 5718 30 unpaginated type script pages with diagrams, drawings, table and index. Octavo (8 3/4" x 5 3/4") in stapled wrappers. Chess tournaments abroad series, volume 1. (Betts: 25-180) First edition. Four games are annotated by the players, three by Keres and some have a general comment by one or other of the players. The cartoons are reproduced from the Russian bulletins. This tournament attracted fourteen contestants. Paul Keres claimed first with a score of 9.5 followed by Alexander Kotov a half point behind. Andor Lilienthal was in clear third at 8.5 followed by three contestants tied for fourth through sixth: Isaak Boleslavsky, David Bronstein and Vassily Smyslov. In seventh was Genrikh Moiseevich Kasparian at 7.5. Salo Flohr had clear eight followed by Igor Bondarevsky at 6 and Alexander V Tolush at 5.5. In Eleventh was Vladimir Andreevich Makogonov with 5 followed by Vladimir Simagin (4); Raul Renter (3) and Juri Randviir (2).
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