Mikhail Podgaets (9 results)

Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. 276 pages with diagrams and index. Royal octavo (9" x 6 1/4") bound in original publisher's pictorial rappers. Translated by Jimmy Adams. First edition. The great Anatoly Karpov, considered the best positional player in chess history, has been a major force in the chess world through the greater part of three decades. Now he shares his profound opening knowledge in an indispensable pair of authoritative books devoted to the Caro Kann. In this volume, Karpov, a lifelong adherent of the Caro Kann, shows how Black can not only survive White's aggression in the open lines of the Panov, but counterpunch and dominate the opening. He selects and analyzes the many lines which provide Black not only with security but also with active play. Condition: Near fine.…

Hardcover. Condition: As new. Russian Chess House, 2016. 385pp. 8vo. As new unread hardcover.

Soft cover. Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. A tight, bright, and clean copy with no inscriptions and no annotations/notes. No creasing to spine/cover or foxing to pages. Excellent condition book. 276pp. (15.5x23cm). Please contact us for any more information.

2016, original boards, 385, (6) pp., as new.

Paperback, 15.5x23.5cm, 284pp. Very good condition. Light edge wear. Tanned page edges. ISBN: 0713490101. In non-adhesive plastic wrapper.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. A tight, bright, and clean copy with no inscriptions, no annotations/notes, and no foxing to pages. Fantastic condition book. 385pp. (14.5x22cm). Please contact us for any more information.

paperback. Condition: Very Good. Trade paperback. Square Tight Binding. Clean interior. Mild rubbing and edge wear to wraps.

Batsford, 2006. Paperback / Softcover. 23 x 15,5 cm. 276 pages - AS NEW [Schaken / Chess ].

No Binding. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. One sheet score card. Octavo (9" x 6") printed official score record handwritten record of game No. 47 Awerbach - Podgaets at the 36th USSR Championship in Alma Ata on January 7, 1969. Signed by both contestants. King's Indian Defense: Saemisch Variation ending in a 64 move draw. The 36th USSR Championship was held in Alma-Ata (now called Almaty), Kazakhstan. Twenty of the Soviet Union's best grandmasters and masters were invited to, and qualified for, the event. The tournament was a second straight victory for Polugaevsky, who had won the 126 player Swiss-style championship the year before alongside Mikhail Tal. Although Tal was present again, it was Alexander Zaitsev who tied with Polugaevsky after the initial event. A six game playoff to determine first place was held after the championship's completion, and Polugaevsky won clear first with 3½ points over Zaitsev's 2½ points. This win would be Polugaevsky's final Soviet championship title. Podgaets tied for sixth through tenth with a score of 10 1/2 of 19. Averbakh tied for eleventh and twelfth with a score of 10. ( Bernard Cafferty and Mark Taimanov, The Soviet Championships) Juri Lwowitsch Awerbach achieved a large number of tournament victories in the course of his chess career: 1st 2nd. in Dresden 1956, 1. in Djakarta 1956, 1. in Adelaide 1960, 1. in Vienna 1961, 1. 2. in Moscow 1962, 1st 2nd in Bucharest 1971, 1st 2nd in Polanica-Zdroj , 1st 3rd in Manila 1979. With the Soviet team he won the European team championships in 1957 in Baden and in 1965 Hamburg. In 1965 he also achieved the best individual result on the eighth board. In 1969 he became an international chess referee . Among other things, he was a referee in the competition for the World Championship of the Professional Chess Association between Garry Kasparov and Nigel Short in London in 1993. From 1973 to 1978 he was President of the Chess Federation of the USSR. He was also editor-in-chief of the chess magazine Schachmaty w SSSR for many years . In 2011 his autobiography was published in English under the title Center-Stage and Behind the Scenes. Mikhail Yakovlevich Podgaets (1947-2009) was anoted Soviet and Ukrainian chessplayer and trainer.A native of Odessa, he won the Ukrainian championship in 1976 and was five times a gold-medal-winning member of the USSR Team in World Student Olympiads. Condition: The sheet is browned, punched, has signs of wear and marginal defects. In the middle with glue shadow and a longer tear that was repaired with adhesive tape. else good to very good.…