Vladimir Andreyevich Savon, 1940-2005, Ukrainian Grandmaster, was one of the best Soviet players in the 1960s and 1970s. In 1971, he won the 39th USSR championship without a loss, with the result of 15 points of 21 games, a point and a half ahead of Smyslov, Tal, Karpov, Stein and others. After the end of his active career, he was a succesful coach. Among his students were, among others, the author of the book Alexander Moiseenko (born 1980, one of the best Ukrainian chess players, European champion 2013, achieved a rating of 2726) or Vassily Ivanchuk (born 1969, a world-top player for 30 years), who has annotated several games. The book contains a life and chess biography, more than 100 in detail annotated games, crosstables of Savon's tournaments, indexes of players and openings. 2 pictures.
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