Soviet Chess School

Soviet Chess School

The Soviet Chess School was founded by Lenin in 1920. While the majority of the Bolsheviks thought chess a game of the upper class with its knights, bishops, king and queen, Lenin thought it improved the mind. Its methods proved very successful and it produced world champions Mikhail Botvinnik, Vassily Smyslov, Tigran Petrosian, Mikhail Tal, Boris Spassky, Anatoly Karpov and Garry Kasparov. Although the USSR is now history the chess school survives and continues to produce strong players such as Vladimir Kramnik who also became world chess champion.

The strongest players in Ireland, Switzerland and Spain are from the former Soviet Chess School, Alexander Baburin, Victor Korchnoi and Alexei Shirov respectively.

References

*cite book
title=The Soviet School of Chess
author=Kotov, Alexander
coauthors=Yudovich, Mikhail
publisher=Hardinge Simpole (2002 ed.)
year=1958
id=ISBN 978-1843820079 (2002 ed.)
*citebook
author=Soltis, Andrew
title=Soviet Chess 1917-1991
year=1999
publisher=McFarland
id=ISBN 0-7864-0676-3
*citebook
author=Soltis, Andrew
title=The Younger School of Soviet Chess
year=1976
publisher=Bell
id=ISBN 978-0713519563
*citebook
author=Nikolai Grekov
title=Soviet Chess (translated by Theodore Reich and updated by David Bronstein)
year=1949, 1962
publisher=Capricorn Books
id=ASIN B000KZ69WS
*citebook
author=David John Richards
title=Soviet Chess
year=1965
publisher=Oxford Clarendon Press
id=ASIN B0017HAKZ0


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