David Bronstein

David Ionovitch Bronstein [[Cyrillic] with Дави´дИо´новичБронште´йн stressing] (February 19th 1924 with Bila Tserkva (Ukraine), Soviet Union - December 5th 2006 with Minsk, Bielorussia) is a player of failures of world class. international Large-Master, it is famous also as a writer.

Biography

He obtains its first success in an international tournament at the time of the interzonal Tournoi of Saltsjöbaden in 1948, thanks to which he is qualified for the Tournoi of the candidates of 1950 with Budapest, while beating in match of decides between Isaac Boleslavsky with Moscow. Does this period see a meteoric rise (?) of Bronstein which is qualified for the championship of the world of 1951 against Mikhail Botvinnik.

Regarded as one of the strongest players not having never been world champion (just as Paul Keres, Viktor Kortchnoï or Bent Larsen), it is very close to the title when it makes tie 12-12 against the world champion Mikhail Botvinnik. According to the payment of FIDE, the champion preserves his title in the event of equality. Bronstein will have this opportunity never again thereafter. The two men hardly appécient themselves and it was often insinuated that Bronstein had sudden pressures. The answer of Bronstein was always rather evasive besides on this subject. It obtains the many first prices in tournaments, most remarkable being champion of Soviet Union in 1948 (with equality with Alexander Kotov) and 1949 (with Vasily Smyslov). It gained six times the championship of Moscow and represented the Russia with the Olympiades of failures in 1952, 1954, 1956 and 1958, gaining prices by chess-board with each one of these Olympiads.

David Bronstein is also the author of many works and articles. Its work Zurich International Chess Tournament 1953 is perhaps well the book more read in the world échiquéen. Nowadays still, it always constitutes a reference for the players of failures. In each one of its books, Bronstein seems to amplify the ideas behind the played blows, instead of annoying the reader by pages of analysis of blows which would never have been written on a sheet of part (?).

Its theoretical work transformed the Défense be-Indian which passed from doubtful opening, before the Second world war, with a solid defense, in particular thanks to its obvious participation in the work Bronstein one the King' S Indian , published in 1999 (???). But the contributions of Bronstein to the theory of the openings do not stop there:

An alternative of the Scandinavian Défense (of which he was a burning partisan) bears its name: 1.e4 d5 2.exd5 Dxd5 3.Cc3 Dd6.

In the last years of its life, Bronstein continued to play failures with an high level. This thanks to many parts simultaneous, but also its attitude, and cordial account epic of its own adventures échiquéennes.

Part

Here one of its victories with Moscow in 1951:

1.d4 Cf6 2.c4 e6 3.Cc3 Fb4 4.e3 O-O 5.Fd3 c5 6.Cf3 b6 7.O-O Fb7 8.Ca4 cxd4 9.a3 Fe7 10.exd4 Dc7 11.b4 Cg4 12.g3 f5 13.Cc3 a6 14.Te1 Cc6 15.Ff1 Cd8 16.Ff4 Fd6 17.Fxd6 Dxd6 18.Fg2 Cf7 19.c5 Dc7 20.Tc1 Tae8 21.Ca4 b5 22.Cc3 f4 23.d5 fxg3 24.fxg3 exd5 25.Dd4 Cf6 26.Ch4 Te5 27.Txe5 Dxe5 28.Dxe5 Cxe5 29.Cf5 Cc4 30.Td1 Rh8 31.Te1 Cxa3 32.Cd6 Fc6 33.Ta1 Cc2 34.Txa6 d4 35.Ccxb5 Fxg2 36.Rxg2 Cg4 37.Cf5 d3 38.Td6 Txf5 39.Txd7 Cce3+ 0-1

Publications

the Art of the combat to the failures, the tournament of the candidates of Zurich, 1953 , Payot, 1994.
The Sorcerer' S Apprentice , 1995;
Bronstein one the King' S Indian , 1999;
The Modern Chess Self-service Tutor ;
200 Open Ranges .

References

The Oxford Companion to Chess , Hooper and Whyld, 1984
(Guinness) Chess; The Records , Whyld, 1986
International Championship Chess , Kazic, 1974
The Encyclopedia off Chess , Sunnucks, 1970
Two Hundred Open Ranges , McMillan, 1973

Complementary readings

Irving Chernev, Twelve Great Chess Players and Their Best Ranges , Dover, August 1995

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