Looking at his numerous short draws make me catch the point. :D

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I confess I can hardly name a British player to emerge in the 50s other than Penrose, but this fella was clearly no mug as the database indicates that he had a positive record against the likes of Szabo and Larsen.

Clarke's book, Tal's own life and games plus the match v. Botvinnik and Joe Gallagher's book

Clarke's book, Vasiliev's Batsford bio (with annotations by Suetin), Petrosian's lectures which were issued in book form, and Hardinge and Keene's book...

a) "El ajedrez extraordinario de Miguel Tal", by Luis Palau, Editorial Mercedes Sopena, Argentina, 1962;

b) "Tal since 1960", by W. H. Cozens, British Chess Magazine, 1974;

c) "Tal's Hundred Best Games 1961-1973", by Bernard Cafferty, Batsford, 1975;

d) "Tal's Masterpieces and other selected games, 1960-1975", by Andrew Karklins,Chicago Chess Books, 1976;

e) "Selected Chess Games of Mikhail Tal", by J. Hajtun, Pitman and Sons, 1961;

f) "Tal-Botvinnik: match for the World Chess Championship 1960", by Mikhail Tal, R.H.M. Press 1977;

g) "Study Chess with Tal", by Mikhail Tal and Alexander Koblenc, Batsford 1978;

h) "Attack with Mikhail Tal", by Mikhail Tal and Iacov Damsky, Cadogan 1994;

I also remember a four volume set published by Batsford some years ago and written by Hillary Thomas, I believe.

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--- The Soviet School of Chess
--- by Kotov and Yudovich
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- However the anonymous author of the Dover version was simply wrong.

- The American players were simply much weaker than the Soviet players.

- With the exception of Reshevsky, none of the top American players
could compete against the Soviets at the time this book was written.

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- Sam Sloan
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I [that is, Phil Innes] should like to verify a few things; first of all I wanted to check if Taylor Kingston was correct in suggesting the author of the Dover edition, May 1961, and he was. To substantiate this I wrote to ask him if it were okay to say so, and what other influences if any there were?

Here is a reply from Dr. Frank Brady: "I wrote the Preface, but since it was in the 1950s, I was afraid to append my name, with the implication that someone might think I was a Red. I wrote to Hayward Cirker, then publisher and owner of Dover and asked him to remove my name before the book was printed. Cirker did that and sent me a cordial letter (I still have it!) agreeing to our "deep, dark secret" that I wrote it. I don't care anymore, of course."

There are still some questions of, for example, if the last paragraph is not actually from the publisher, even if in Frank's words.

So, that seems clear, except for one other anecdote by my old team captain in England who advised that the chess was better than anything else then being published in English language [this was intended as an export book] but not to trust the lines too deeply since they were, in his words 'distracting', as if to say, you young tigers better look a bit further. His name was <P. H. Clarke>. In England there was no 'red menace' atmosphere in the fifties as there was here with McCarthy, and so cheap [important!] Russian oriented chess texts were welcome.

And finally, it was more difficult for American players to contest the Soviets, since both countries limited access to each other, but as for 'only Reschevsky', who knows? There was simply not enough opportunity to play Soviets over enough games to get psyched up for the few encounters there were. [...]

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