Stein:

Move by Move

Thomas Engquvist

• Publisher: Popular Chess
• Year: 2016
• eBook ISBN: 9781781942703

Leonid Stein was a three-time Soviet Chess Champion and one of the World's strongest players during his career, which was tragically cut short at its peak by his premature death in 1973. Stein was a fierce competitor who defeated virtually all of his closest rivals and enjoyed excellent results even against World Champions. Stein possessed a unique creative attacking style, and his legacy includes a number of wonderful attacking games. In this book, International Master Thomas Engqvist invites readers to join him in a study of his favorite Stein games, and shows how we can all improve by learning from Stein's masterpieces. Move by Move provides an ideal platform to study chess. By continually challenging the reader to answer probing questions throughout the book, the Move by Move format greatly encourages the learning and practicing of vital skills just as much as the traditional assimilation of knowledge. Carefully selected questions and answers are designed to keep you actively involved and allow you to monitor your progress as you learn. This is an excellent way to improve your chess skills and knowledge.

Table of contents

• About the Author
• Bibliography
• Introduction
• 1 Early Years
• 2 The Way to the Top
• 3 The Strongest Period
• 4 Setbacks and Bad Luck
• 5 The Final Years
• Index of Complete Games
• Bannik.A-Stein.L, Ukrainian Championship, Kiev 1959
• Benko.P-Stein.L, Amsterdam Interzonal 1964
• Berenstein.A-Stein.L, Ukrainian Championship semi-final, Kiev 1960
• Birbrager.I-Stein.L, USSR Championship semi-final, Sverdlovsk 1963
• Borisenko.G-Stein.L, USSR Spartakiad, Moscow 1964
• Damjanovic.M-Stein.L, Tallinn 1969
• Donne.P-Stein.L, Havana Olympiad 1966
• Furman.A-Stein.L, USSR Championship, Leningrad 1963
• Georgescu.V-Stein.L, Bucharest 1961
• Kostiuchenko.A-Stein.L, Ukrainian Championship, Kiev 1959
• Krogius.N-Stein.L, Russia-Ukraine match, Kiev 1960
• Lazarev.E-Stein.L, Ukrainian Junior Championship, Kharkov 1951
• Malich.B-Stein.L, Toth Memorial, Kecskemet 1968
• Marangunic.S-Stein.L, Zagreb 1972
• Nikitin.A.S-Stein.L, USSR Team Championship, Grozny 1969
• Osnos.V-Stein.L, USSR Championship, Leningrad 1963
• Radovici.C-Stein.L, Bucharest 1961
• Saidy.A-Stein.L, Tallinn 1971
• Ståhlberg.G-Stein.L, Yerevan 1965
• Stein.L-Gershberg, Ukrainian Spartakiad, Dnipropetrovsk 1966
• Stein.L-Barcza.G, Tallinn 1971
• Stein.L-Bárczay.L, Sousse Interzonal 1967
• Stein.L-Bronstein.D, USSR Championship, Moscow 1961
• Stein.L-Cherbak.V, Avantgard Society Championship, Kiev 1960
• Stein.L-Ciric.D.M, USSR-Yugoslavia match, Vrnjacka Banja 1965
• Stein.L-Evans.L, Amsterdam Interzonal 1964
• Stein.L-Hort.V, Sousse Interzonal (play-off) 1968
• Stein.L-Kholmov.R, USSR Championship, Leningrad 1963
• Stein.L-Kholmov.R, USSR Championship, Tbilisi 1966
• Stein.L-Kwiatkowski.S, Ukrainian Championship, Kiev 1959
• Stein.L-Langeweg.K, IBM Tournament, Amsterdam 1969
• Stein.L-Lentschiner.I, Ukrainian Championship, Kiev 1960
• Stein.L-Lutikov.A, Kislovodsk 1966
• Stein.L-Nei.I, USSR Championship semi-final (play-off), Moscow 1959
• Stein.L-Parma.B, Alekhine Memorial, Moscow 1971