International Chess Tournament: Moscow 1925 – HARDCOVER En Passant with a few exceptions

with a few exceptions

Mamedyarov and Ding Liren are among his victims

1922 on Kaluga

As well as the pieces on the board

there is one requirement: you do have to love the game and give it your best shot

International Chess Tournament: Moscow 1925 – HARDCOVER En Passant with a few exceptionsMoscow 1925 was the first state sponsored international chess tournament, which marked an important step in the development of Soviet chess. It featured ten Soviet masters and eleven foreign stars, of whom the world champion Jos Ral Capablanca and his predecessor Emanuel Lasker were expected to be the main contenders, but it was the Soviet master Efim Bogoljubow who scored an unexpected victory. Bogoljubow was commissioned to annotate all 210 games