Leonid Stein's brilliant chess career, cut tragically short in 1973, included overwhelming victories against the world's leading grandmasters, Stein not only stormed to an incredible total of three first prizes (out of four attempts) in the USSR Championships, but also won what were arguably the two strongest tournaments of all time - Moscow 1967 and Moscow 1971.
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Leonid Stein's brilliant chess career, cut tragically short in 1973, included overwhelming victories against the world's leading grandmasters, Stein not only stormed to an incredible total of three first prizes (out of four attempts) in the USSR Championships, but also won what were arguably the two strongest tournaments of all time - Moscow 1967 and Moscow 1971.
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Add this copy of Leonid Stein: Master of Attack to cart. $40.00, very good condition, Sold by Clausen Books, RMABA rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Colorado Springs, CO, UNITED STATES, published 1976 by Robert Hale & Company.
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Near Fine in Near Fine (in mylar) jacket. Hardcover. 8vo-7 3/4"-9 3/4 " Tall. Immaculate, gift quality copy in descriptive notation; Minor vertical air bubble in the cloth of the front board, otherwise the binding is tight and minimally edge-rubbed. Unclipped, lightly edge-rubbed dust jacket, bright and clean, protected by mylar; 159p., including openings and player indices. One of the few books published on the life of Ukranian Grandmaster Leonid Zakharovych Stein, who might have become world champion if he had not succumbed to a heart attack in 1973 at age 38.
