Three years after winning the world championship, Mikhail Botvinnik had to defend his title against the challenge of David Bronstein. Though out of practice and largely outplayed by his brilliant young opponent, Botvinnik ably demonstrated his fighting abilities and ultimately retained his title. All 24 games are deeply annotated.
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Botvinnik: A glimpse into the Champion's mind!,
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This review is from: Brotvinnik - Bronstein Moscow 1951: Match for the World Chess Championship (Progress in Chess) (Paperback)
First, the review by mianfei is about another book on the 1951 World Championship. Golombek wrote many such books published by Hardinge Simpole (the World Chess Championship 1948 by Golombek is another such book and it is very good), but this book is by the World Champion himself. The notes are pure Botvinnik : frank evaluations of the position and the games. Botvinnik was not one to mince words and he is as hard on himself as he is on anyone. However, he is not the only contributor: to fill out the book, other GMs wrote some of the notes, including the 21st game by Evgeny Sveshnikov. The 18th move in Game 21 referenced by mianfei here does get a ?! with the explanation from Sveshnikov that the white bishop was better on e3, operating on two flanks.
I am not a strong enough player to evaluate the games, but they are fun to play through. This was a very close battle for the World Championship; the defending champ, Botvinnik had not played for some time (finishing his doctoral thesis), and Bronstein was the new kid on the block. Botvinnik losses the 21st and 22nd games, but wins the 23rd and the 24th is drawn, as is the match. Botvinnik keeps the title because of the draw. Add to the mix that the two players did not care for one another (especially after the match) and the fact that Bronstein was one of the champions of the King's Indian Defense, a style of play that Botvinnik questioned ("a pure sham"), makes this book all the move interesting, although the KID only makes one appearance here. This was before the 1953 Zurich Tournament where the King's Indian had a great coming out party, and many classical players did not think much of the defense. Anyway, this is a fun book to play through and you get a glimpse into the World Champion's mind. Well worth reading and playing through!
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The weakest of Hardinge Simpole's works on the World Championship,
This review is from: Brotvinnik - Bronstein Moscow 1951: Match for the World Chess Championship (Progress in Chess) (Paperback)
A book on the 1951 World Championship match between Mikhail Botvinnik and David Bronstein has been on my wish list for a long time, as the close contest and a number of interesting games had attracted my attention from previous reads on the match for chess history books.
It is unfortunate that this book does not match Hardinge Simpole's previous work on the 1948 championship tournament. The annotation, I feel, lacks the detail and depth of Golombek's previous work and many parts of most games are not looked at even as clearly as in some semi-encyclopedic works on the World Championship I read as a child. there is also rather too little context to help understand the games or the see-sawing course of the match. Errors and good moves are also not made to stand out as much as they should be. For instance, in game 21 Botvinnik's exchange of bishops on move 18, which got him into very bad trouble, should have been marked with a question mark (or even two) but was not. On the whole, this could have been rather better, but later works in this series were certainly an improvement.
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