The BRILLIANT TOUCH in CHESS Walter Korn 1966 1st ed Dover Press - 240 Positions

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Item: Book - Chess Strategy
Title:
The Brilliant Touch in Chess
240 Positions commented on by Walter Korn
C. 1966
App. 101 pages
Publisher: Dover Press - Chess Series
Softcover
Approx: 8.5" x 5.75"
Condition:
Book is in Excellent Condition.
Very Light wear from being perused
Annoying price sticker on spine, which I'm leaving there
Complete, Clean and Solid.
Great resource/aide to your chess game - more chess strategy books are listed
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Very Hard to find reference.
Only one other copy of this edition remains on ebay (at time of listing)
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Walter Korn
(22 May 1908;
Prague
,
Czechoslovakia
– July 9, 1997;
San Mateo, California
,
United States
) was a Czech-born, naturalised American author of books and magazine articles about
chess
. Despite his status as a writer, there is no known record of him playing tournament chess, and few chess players ever met him. One of his few known games is a draw against a 13-year-old
Gordon Crown
, published in the April 1943 issue of
Chess
.
[1]
Korn was a
FIDE
International Judge for
chess compositions
and contributed the entire topic of chess for the
Encyclopædia Britannica
(1972).
Korn was the author of
Modern Chess Openings
(
MCO
) (revised editions 7 through 12, 13th revised by Nick de Firmian), which was considered an authoritative work on the
openings of chess
. A new edition of
MCO
would come out every five years or so, and it was essential reading for tournament chess players.
In later years, Korn enlisted the help of top players, such as
Grandmaster
Larry Evans
and Grandmaster
Nick de Firmian
, while continuing as a co-author.
Korn fled his homeland for
London
in 1939. Several years later, in
Germany
, he directed the
U.N. Relief and Rehabilitation Administration
, helping to relocate
concentration camp
survivors. In 1948, he served as national director of
World ORT
in
Geneva
. He immigrated to the
United States
in 1950, and lived in
Detroit
, where he worked as business manager of the
Jewish Community Center
. From 1960 to 1964, he lived in
Israel
, working for both the
Joint Distribution Committee
and the
United Jewish Appeal
.
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