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 | | When discussing chess at the national and international level, rather than in terms of individuals, the most important episode in the game's history was, almost unarguably, the rise and fall of the Soviet chess empire. |
 | | Contact with Western chess circles is re-established with the Moscow tournaments of 1925, 1935 and 1936, but except for a few such as Botvinnik, Soviet masters remain little known in the West. |
 | | However, Soviet Chess is well documented, its eight pages of notes and bibliography detailing hundreds of sources, mostly Russian, ranging from old issues of Shakmaty v SSSR and 64, and memoirs of early figures such as Ilyin-Genevsky and Bohatyrchuk, to newly unearthed KGB files and recent books by Kasparov and Karpov. |
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