Soviet Championships

Mark Taimanov, famous Russian Grandmaster and former World Championship Candidate, has selected and annotated all of the games in this book. There can be no one better qualified, as Taimanov himself holds the distinction (along with Geller) of participating in a record 23 Soviet Championships. Bernard Cafferty, who wrote the reports on each Championship, is a fluent Russian speaker and an eminent chess historian. As a former editor of the British Chess Magazine, he has spent decades researching Russian archival literature.