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In the Golden Age of Chess, when such giants as Capablanca and Alekhine still walked the earth, there was a man called "the stormy petrel of chess."  Aron Nimzowitsch, born in Riga of Jewish parents, proved to be the Picasso of the chess world, a breaker of norms yet the creator of new forms of art. His books, especially My System, are monuments to chess thinking.  This is one of his forgotten works, the tournament where he could lay claim to being a challenger to the world title. Alexandre Alekhine, a boyhood rival of Nimzowitsch when they both played in Imperial Russia before the Great War, realized the danger "Nimzo" posed, and demanded that he raise a purse of $10,000--in gold. Thus a match of those great thinkers in their prime never came to pass. Sadly, Nimzo's health declined, and he died in 1934.

Here is his greatest triumph: Nimzowitsch, first, with 15 points; Capablanca and Spielmann, tied for second and third with 14 1/2. Worth every penny.

This book is now out of print.

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