Soviet Chess Compositions 1945-1947 [antikvár]

In the last decades before the war the Soviet ehess problem art has raised to a high standard. This is proved - among others - by the fact that according to the statistics of the international problem tourneys, in a 15 years' period (1923-1937) the works of Soviet composers won more than 1400 tourney honours, including 600 prizes. Thus it is easy to understand that the ehess problem friends of the whole world have shown an enthusiastic interest towards the post-war Soviet problem tourneys. The honoured problems of these tourneys have been collected in this booklet with the assistance of the editors of the Soviet ehess periodical „Shakhmati v. S. S. S. R." and we feel obliged to express our thanks alsó hereby for their help granted to us by completing the material at our disposal. The text as well as the solitions have been written in English with the intention to contribute alsó by this to make these problems recognised all over the world. By studying the problems it will be realised that there are in great number first class compositions among them, especially in the end-games, both in respect of the originality of the ideas and the aecuracy of the eonstruction. But it is remarkable too that somé of the greatest Soviet composers are not mentioned in these awards. We are looking in vain for the works of A. Troiizky, L. I. Kubbel, M. Barulin, L. Gugel, S. Levma?i and F. Simkhovic among the new Soviet ehess problems. These world-known masters of the ehess composition have lost their lives during the terrible years of the war. Their works belong to the indestroyable treasures of mankind; they will announee to all future ages the eternal laws of Beauty, the reality of the exceptional, of the wonders on the chess-board, the materialisation of the final Order eager to extrieate itself from the Chaos always better and better. In remembrance we quote a mesterpiece of each of them. A great artist's personality is never replaceable, his creating genius cannot come to life again in anybody. We may only hope that new twigs will shoot with new flowers in place of the old,