Year of release: 2016 Author: Berdichevsky I. A. Availability of illustrations: No illustrations Genre: Encyclopedia Publisher: Russian chess house ISBN: 978-5-94693-503-6 Format: PDF Quality: Scanned pages Number of pages: 320 Scanned by: me Description: This book is addressed to everyone, who is interested in chess and its history. In your hands is a unique collection of the destinies of people born under the Star of David and fascinated by the best of the Games created in the entire history of mankind. The people who gave the world brilliant artists and musicians, writers and scientists, politicians and religious figures, left a bright mark in chess. In total, the encyclopedia contains more than 1,350 personalities, among whom are not only outstanding chess players, but also coaches, journalists, historians, organizers - that is, all those who were and are bricks in the huge intellectual pyramid called chess. "Jewish Chess Encyclopedia" - visible confirmation of the FIDE slogan “Gensuna sumus”. The author and main initiator of the project, grandmaster Igor Aleksandrovich Berdichevsky, managed to infect many chess historians from Australia to North America with the idea of creating a fundamental work. It was thanks to their selfless efforts that a couple of lines of information he had sometimes turned into a real mini-saga! Using this book, a thinking reader will be able to study many world processes inextricably linked with Jewish culture of the 19th and 20th centuries.