The forgotten Soviet player
Susan Polgar Chess Blog (Free subscription) | 10/25/2009
Fedor Bohatirchuk By Bobby Ang Last Friday I was talking about the 27 original grandmasters of the World Chess Federation (FIDE). This comprised of: 1) the world champion (Botvinnik) 2) 14 players who had played in the inaugural Candidates’ Tournament in 1950 (Boleslavsky, Bondarevsky, Bronstein, Euwe, Fine, Flohr, Keres, Kotov, Lilienthal, Najdorf, Reshevsky, Smyslov, Stahlberg and Szabo),...


