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Author: Sergei Tkachenko
Publisher: Limited Liability Company Elk and Ruby Publishing House
Imprint: Limited Liability Company Elk and Ruby Publishing House
Edition: Annotated edition
Volume: 5
Dimensions:
Width: 15.50cm
, Height: 2.00cm
, Length: 23.00cm
Weight: 0.592kg
ISBN: 9785604071069
ISBN 10: 5604071064
Pages: 386
Publication Date: 14 October 2019
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Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
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Reviews
In his short life (1899-1931) Vilner was not only a strong chess player (6th in the Soviet championship of 1924 and the Ukrainian champion several times) but also composed splendid studies that every chess lover will be impressed by because of their depth and beauty. This book contains a combination of games and studies where games are sometimes decided by study-like moves - Bab Wilders, Nederlands Dagblad, 16 November 2019
"""In his short life (1899-1931) Vilner was not only a strong chess player (6th in the Soviet championship of 1924 and the Ukrainian champion several times) but also composed splendid studies that every chess lover will be impressed by because of their depth and beauty. This book contains a combination of games and studies where games are sometimes decided by study-like moves"" - Bab Wilders, Nederlands Dagblad, 16 November 2019 ""Tkachenko provides a fascinating reconstruction of the politically fraught rehabilitation of chess in Odessa after the civil war. Vilner (1899-1931) died young due to chronic asthma. Poor health explains his erratic results, including relatively frequent blunders. Vilner's spirit of determination nevertheless enabled him to win the first two Ukrainian Championships in 1924 and 1925. Also in 1925 he finished mid-table in the gruelling USSR Championship, demolishing the winner, Bogoljubov, in scintillating style. Further successes followed, including the title of USSR champion at chess composition (3-move problems) in 1929. Vilner had a noteworthy record against Botvinnik, whom he let off with a draw in a fine game in the last year of his life. Although Vilner never reached the top, his games show flashes of brilliance. For readers who want to leave the beaten track of anthologies and databases, the games in this book provide a vivid glimpse into the fighting chess of the early Soviet era. Tkachenko reproduces contemporary annotations, including Vilner's own, supplying analytical corrections. This is an excellent method for presenting historical games."" FIDE Master James Vigus, CHESS magazine, August 2020 ""...wonderful documentation of a chess player and composer who certainly deserves to be better known."" GM Matthew Sadler, New In Chess magazine, January 2020"
In his short life (1899-1931) Vilner was not only a strong chess player (6th in the Soviet championship of 1924 and the Ukrainian champion several times) but also composed splendid studies that every chess lover will be impressed by because of their depth and beauty. This book contains a combination of games and studies where games are sometimes decided by study-like moves - Bab Wilders, Nederlands Dagblad, 16 November 2019 Tkachenko provides a fascinating reconstruction of the politically fraught rehabilitation of chess in Odessa after the civil war. Vilner (1899-1931) died young due to chronic asthma. Poor health explains his erratic results, including relatively frequent blunders. Vilner's spirit of determination nevertheless enabled him to win the first two Ukrainian Championships in 1924 and 1925. Also in 1925 he finished mid-table in the gruelling USSR Championship, demolishing the winner, Bogoljubov, in scintillating style. Further successes followed, including the title of USSR champion at chess composition (3-move problems) in 1929. Vilner had a noteworthy record against Botvinnik, whom he let off with a draw in a fine game in the last year of his life. Although Vilner never reached the top, his games show flashes of brilliance. For readers who want to leave the beaten track of anthologies and databases, the games in this book provide a vivid glimpse into the fighting chess of the early Soviet era. Tkachenko reproduces contemporary annotations, including Vilner's own, supplying analytical corrections. This is an excellent method for presenting historical games. FIDE Master James Vigus, CHESS magazine, August 2020 ...wonderful documentation of a chess player and composer who certainly deserves to be better known. GM Matthew Sadler, New In Chess magazine, January 2020
Author Information
Sergei Tkachenko (born in 1963, near Odessa, Ukraine) is a member of the Ukrainian team that won the 5th World Chess Composition Tournament in 1997 and which came second in 2000, 2004, 2013, and 2017. He has won the studies section of the Ukrainian Chess Composition Championship six times and has won prizes, many of them for first place, in over 100 international chess composition tournaments. Sergei coaches the Ukrainian chess composition team. He is also the press secretary of the Chess Composition Committee of the Ukrainian Chess Federation. Sergei is an award-winning author who has written 18 chess books (in Russian), including compositions and on historical themes. Four of his chess study books have been published in English. He is deputy chief editor of a Ukrainian chess composition magazine called Problemist of Ukraine and has a regular studies column on the ChessPro website. Sergei is a member of the Ukrainian Union of Journalists. He is a historian and archivist, a mechanical engineering graduate, and additionally spent five years studying theater production.
