Konstantinopolsky: Obsession - A Chess Biography of Vsevolod Rauzer (paperback) Klassiker the Benoni Defense and the

the Benoni Defense and the Volga-Benkö Gambit

and considering the problems Black has in the Queen's Indian

Ukrainian International Master Valeri Bronznik lives and works in Germany

As the second-youngest player ever to reach Grandmaster status and a former Asian Champion

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Konstantinopolsky: Obsession - A Chess Biography of Vsevolod Rauzer (paperback) Klassiker the Benoni Defense and theVsevolod Rauzer, born in Kiev in 1908, was one of the world's leading chess opening theoreticians and thinkers in the 1930s. As a player, he was an uncompromising attacker, trying to avoid draws as well as to prove that 1. e4 wins by force. According to Mikhail Botvinnik, His opening researchwith linked middlegame plans, gives us every reason to place V. Rauzer among the founders of the Soviet chess school. Awarded the Master of Sport title in 1929,