White King and Red Queen: How the Cold War Was Fought on the Chessboard PDF
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^ r^ Daniel Johnson AND HOW THE COLD WAR WAS FOUGHT ON THE CHESSBOARD $26.oo — DanielJohnson journalist, editor, scholar, and chessenthusiast whoonceplayedGarryKasparov — to a draw in a simultaneous exhibition is the perfectguide to oneofhistory's most remarkable periods, whenchessmatcheswerefront-pagenews andcapturedthe world'simagination. played out in many areas: geopolitical alliances, military coalitions, cat- and-mouse espionage, the arms race, proxy — wars and chess. AnessentialpastimeofRus- sian intellectuals and revolutionaries, and later adopted by theCommunists as asymbol ofSo- viet power, chess was inextricably linked to the rise and fall ofthe "evil empire." This original narrativehistory recounts ingrippingdetail the singularpart theImmortal Gameplayed in the Cold War. From chess's role in the Russian — Revolution Marx, Lenin, and Trotsky were — all avid players to the 1945 radio match when the Soviets crushed the Americans, promptingStalin's telegram "Well done lads!"; to the epic contest between Bobby Fischerand Boris Spassky in 1972 at the heightofdetente, when Kissinger told Fischer to "go over there and beat the Russians"; to the collapse ofthe Soviet Union itself, White King andRed Queen takes uson afascinating touroftheCold War's checkered landscape. Digitized by the Internet Archive in 2011 http://www.archive.org/details/whitekingredqueeOOjohn WHITE KING AND RED QUEEN Chess symbolism was ubiquitous during the Cold War: a Tactical Weapons Chessboard from 1971. White King AND Red Oueen HOW THE COLD WAR WAS FOUGHT ON THE CHESSBOARD DANIEL JOHNSON ^ HOUGHTON MIFFLIN COMPANY BOSTON AND NEW YORK 2008 Preface copyright©2008 byDaniel Johnson Copyright©2007 byDaniel Johnson OriginallypublishedinGreatBritainin 2007 byAtlanticBooks ALL RIGHTS RESERVED Forinformationaboutpermission toreproduce selections from thisbook, write Permissions, Houghton MifflinHarcourt PublishingCompany, 215 Park Avenue South, NewYork, NewYork 10003 www.hmhbooks.com LibraryofCongress Cataloging-in-PublicationData Johnson, Daniel, date. Whitekingandredqueen howtheColdWarwasfought : onthechessboard/DanielJohnson. p. cm. Originallypublished: London AtlanticBooks, 2007. : isbn 978-0-547-13337-9 1. Chess—SovietUnion—History—20thcentury. 2. Chessplayers—SovietUnion—History—20th century. 3. Chess—Tournaments—History— 20thcentury. 4. Chess—Politicalaspects—Soviet Union. 5.Worldpolitics—1945-1989. I. Title. GV1330.S65J65 2008 — 794.10947 dc22 2008029901 Printedin theUnitedStatesofAmerica Book designbyVictoriaHartman 987654321 doc 10 TO SARAH deo gratia
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