First Grandmaster of the Soviet Union Sale Strategic mastermind Johan Hellsten teaches

Strategic mastermind Johan Hellsten teaches you to defend at a master level

- Queen’s Gambit Declined - Exchange Variation 5

which demonstrate how the recommendations are applied in real games

Choose from CLEAR or WHITE plastic pieces

To commemorative the Legendary Piatigorsky Cup Chess tournaments of 1963 and 1966

First Grandmaster of the Soviet Union Sale Strategic mastermind Johan Hellsten teachesBorn in Bakhmut, Ukraine, and brought up in Odessa, Boris Verlinsky (1888 1950) was the first holder of the grandmaster title in the Soviet Union, and he was consistently one of the top Soviet players in the 1920s. He earned the masters title at the 1924 Soviet Championship and won fourth prize at the 1925 Championship, defeating the tournament winner Bogoljubov along the way. Verlinsky then crushed Capablanca at the 1925 Moscow International