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White King And Red Queen: How the Cold War Was Fought on the Chessboard
White King And Red Queen: How the Cold War Was Fought on the Chessboard
White King And Red Queen: How the Cold War Was Fought on the Chessboard
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White King And Red Queen: How the Cold War Was Fought on the Chessboard

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Daniel Johnson -- journalist, editor, scholar, and chess enthusiast who once played Garry Kasparov to a draw in a simultaneous exhibition -- is the perfect guide to one of history’s most remarkable periods, when chess matches were front-page news and captured the world’s imagination.

The Cold War played out in many areas: geopolitical alliances, military coalitions, cat-and-mouse espionage, the arms race, proxy wars -- and chess. An essential pastime of Russian intellectuals and revolutionaries, and later adopted by the Communists as a symbol of Soviet power, chess was inextricably linked to the rise and fall of the “evil empire.” This original narrative history recounts in gripping detail the singular part the Immortal Game played in the Cold War. From chess’s role in the Russian Revolution -- Marx, Lenin, and Trotsky were all avid players -- to the 1945 radio match when the Soviets crushed the Americans, prompting Stalin’s telegram “Well done lads!”; to the epic contest between Bobby Fischer and Boris Spassky in 1972 at the height of détente, when Kissinger told Fischer to “go over there and beat the Russians”; to the collapse of the Soviet Union itself, White King and Red Queen takes us on a fascinating tour of the Cold War’s checkered landscape.
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Release dateNov 10, 2008
ISBN9780547393841
White King And Red Queen: How the Cold War Was Fought on the Chessboard
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Daniel Johnson

Dr. Daniel Johnson is a researcher in the characterisation and development of membranes for water treatment, surface forces, osmometry and water treatment using membrane osmosis based processes.

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    An interesting history of chess between USSR and the West. The Karpov/Kortchnoi match description was particularly interesting. Overall enjoyable, though at times the author was a bit heavy-handed in his anti-communist and -Soviet agenda.
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    Picked this book up quite by chance and I am so glad I did. Fascinating view of 20th Century history, and the Cold War in particular.

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