Taylor Kingston Chess in the Third Reich 1933-1945 Strategie 4th revised edition 2011

4th revised edition 2011

He studies the most theoretically important and instructive games in recent years

including Capablanca

A must-have for chess historians

249 7) The Dynamic Element

Taylor Kingston Chess in the Third Reich 1933-1945 Strategie 4th revised edition 2011How the Game Was Played, Glorified and Abused The USSR is famous as the first totalitarian state to promote chess. Less well known is that Nazi Germany was the second. The Third Reich gave chess a tremendous financial and propaganda boost in hopes of making Germany a dominant chess power. Yet this aspect of the Nazi era has received scant attention in later German literature, and even less in English. This book fills that gap.