(Isaak Lipnitski: Stars and Thorns). Detailed life and chess biography and 105 annotated games and game fragments of Isaak Oskarovich Lipnitski, 1923-1959. Career record, 22 crosstables, indexes of players and openings. Lipnitski was strong Ukrainian / Soviet master, coach, journalist, teacher. He was twice Ukrainian champion - in 1949 and 1956, several times participated in the final of the USSR championship - in 1950 in Moscow finished on 2nd-4th place with 11 points out of 17 games. He won the games against the strongest Soviet players like Keres, Petrosjan, Smyslov, Kotov, Taimanov, Geller and others. His book Voprosy sovremennoy shakhmatnoy teorii has become a classic, someone says that Bobby Fischer learned Russian to be able to read it.
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