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| | Chessville Reviews - Match for the World Chess Champioinship: Botvinnik – David Bronstein, Moscow 1951- by Mikhail ... |
 | | They are adequate, but placing the writing at the side of such players as Bronstein, “the Daffy Duck of chess,” and Tal, “the Wizard of Riga” (and no lame author himself), Kramnik’s writing comes off like his play in the Berlin Defense to the Spanish Game. |
 | | Bronstein is “[a] typical scheming (not impetuous) player,” among other things, “[a] neurasthenic and he probably suffers from fixed ideas, but very hard-working” – the insights run for a page and a half, and probably kept translator Ken Neat on his toes. |
 | | Unfortunately, the source of none of the annotations is given, and comments such as “as Bronstein points out in his comments” – without giving any reference – are needlessly teasing in their incompleteness. |
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