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Genna Remembers, Thinkers Publishing, is the latest effort by the Dutch Grandmaster to preserve the memory of
the many different individuals who were part of the Soviet chess dynasty, the
greatest the game has ever seen.
In previous books
Sosonko has primarily focused on the Soviet World Champions (Botvinnik,
Smyslov, Tal, Petrosian, Spassky, Karpov and Kasparov). Some of them,
principally Kasparov, get a mention here, but the emphasis is on others
including Grandmasters Leonid Shamkovich (aka “The Prince”) and Igor Ivanov and
the ill-fated International Master Sergey Nikolaev who was tragically murdered
by a bunch of teenage neo-Nazis in Moscow.
"Genna Remembers" will
not improve your chess but it will improve your chess culture. Any chess player
with an interest in the history of the game will find this book fascinating
reading.
IM John Donaldson, US Chess, 09.2021.
