How much indebted we are to him, Tal and others for making chess a little less mechanical and a lot more beautiful !!

David,
The prize might have been 'pressured' away from you but U will forever be a world champion in our eyes

<In 1976, when Viktor Korchnoi, a top Soviet player, defected, Mr. Bronstein was one of the few Soviet grandmasters who refused to sign a letter denouncing him. As punishment, Soviet officials suspended Mr. Bronstein’s monthly stipend, a wage paid to all top Soviet masters that allowed them to devote themselves full time to chess. He was also barred from competing in almost any elite tournament within the Soviet Union and from competing outside the country more than once a year.>

The man had guts.

He was a man who faced Botvinnik, Tal, Korchnoi, Furman,... in matches -- not a single match he lost. Man who was the world number one in the years 1949-51. Man who introduced by far the greatest number of original ideas to chess. Man who, together with Boleslavsky, gave King's Indian its true life. One of the very greatest chess thinkers and chess writers of all times. An extraordinary investigator and path breaker into the nature of human thought, in chess and in life. A man of kindness and integrity far beyond the call of dutty.

Your welcome Maroczy.I hope some new books and cd's are created about Bronstein. According to my chessbase database Bronstein achieved his highest elo rating in 1979 (at age 53): 2570.

He won the 1949 Budapest-Moscow Tournament with a score of 11.5-4.5 He drew the 1951 WC Match with Botvinnik 12-12,he defeated Najdorf in a match in 1954 by a score of 2.5-1.5, he defeated Larry Evans in a 1955 Telex match by a score of 2.5-1.5,he lost a 1959 match to Fuderer by a score of 3-1, he defeated GM Ivkov in a match in 1968 by a score of 2.5-1.5, he defeated Korchnoi in a 1970 training match by a score of 5-2,he finished second (on a tie-break) at the 1970 Vinkovic tournament (one half point behind the winner Bent Larsen),and he came in second in the 1982 Moscow Championship with a score of 12.5/18 (on a tie-break with Rashkovksy). Bronstein lost to Tal in a match in 1982 by a score of 5-3.In 1990 he played in the Rotterdam KO tournament, defeating Hans Bohm,Manuel Bosboom,before losing in the third round to Piket by a score of 3.5-2.5.He drew a 1991 match with Soren Bech Hansen of Denmark (the score was 2-2.) According to my chessbase database file of Bronstein, he had a performance elo of 2517 with the white pieces and 2482 with the black pieces.

His last tournament game apppears to be his loss to Nijboer in the 1997 VAM Hoogeveen op 53 moves 1-0.