Comments on: The Rise and Fall of Soviet Chess? https://chessentials.com/the-rise-and-fall-of-soviet-chess/ Chess blog about chess tactics, chess games and chess books Mon, 28 Nov 2022 12:42:08 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 By: Mistreaver https://chessentials.com/the-rise-and-fall-of-soviet-chess/#comment-15695 Mon, 28 Nov 2022 12:42:08 +0000 https://chessentials.com/?p=10103#comment-15695 In reply to Bjorn Frithiof.

Yeah, that is correct! I kinda forgot to mention it! Fully on spot comment!

]]> By: Bjorn Frithiof https://chessentials.com/the-rise-and-fall-of-soviet-chess/#comment-15651 Thu, 24 Nov 2022 04:09:33 +0000 https://chessentials.com/?p=10103#comment-15651 Interesting article. One thing that has to be taken into account though is that for a period of time during the Soviet era, FIDE had a rule limiting the number of participants from one country in the Candidates stage – the only country affected by this rule was the USSR. So for instance GM Stein had in reality qualified for Curacao 1962 but was excluded due to this rule (I believe the same thing applied after the Interzonal in 1964). So in reality, the dominance of Soviet players was even greater than you take into account in your comparison with present day Russian chess.

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