no pieces between the king and rook; 2) neither the king nor the rook can previously have moved; 3) the king cannot be in check; 4) nor can the king pass over a square that is under attack by an opposing piece.
Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU)—The governing body of the Communist Party. The general secretary (or first secretary) was the true leader of the USSR.
Checkmate—The king is attacked and cannot escape; the end of the chess game.
Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI)—Founded in 1908 as the Bureau of Investigation, it is the investigative arm of the U.S. Department of Justice and answerable to the U.S. attorney general. Broadly, it investigates cases where a federal interest is involved. At the period of this story, its name was inseparable from that of J. Edgar Hoover, who had been director since 1924.
Federation Internationale des echecs (FIDE)—Formed in 1924, it has responsibility for the organization of chess at the international level, including the rules of play and international championships. The membership is of national chess federations.
Grandmaster—The highest international ranking of a player. The title is earned through a complex rating system but essentially requires several strong results in top-class tournaments. “International master” is the next highest ranking. In 1972, there were approximately ninety grandmasters; there are now six times that number.
Icelandic Chess Federation (ICF)—Responsible for organized chess in Iceland.
Komitet Gosudarstvennoi Bezopasnosti (KGB)—Committee for State Security, successor to the secret police, the NKVD.
Komsomol—The Youth League of the Communist Party.
Narodnyi Komissariat Vnutrennikh Del (NKVD)—People’s Commissariat for Internal Affairs, the state security organization until 1943. With its own armed force and control over the penal system, it answered directly to Stalin and included the political police, ordinary police, and border troops.
Opening—There are no fixed frontiers separating the three phases of chess—the opening, the middle game, and the ending—but the opening covers the first moves of the game, often well known to the players from their experience and from study to the players; in the middle game, the majority of the pieces will still be on the board, but the game will have entered virgin territory; and the ending is usually marked by the disappearance of the queens.
Politburo—The policy-making body or cabinet of the CPSU Central Committee and center of Soviet political power.
Second—A chess player who supports another player, in a tournament or a match, with opening preparation and, when unfinished games were adjourned, with adjournment analysis.
United States Chess Federation (USCF)—Responsible for organized chess in the United States.
USSR Council of Ministers Committee for Physical Training and Sport (GosKomSport)—In effect, the Sports Ministry, coming under the jurisdiction of the Council of Ministers. Constitutionally, GosKomSport was part of the government but in practice was answerable to the corresponding Central Committee department. It ran chess through its chess committee, the Central Chess Club, and the USSR Chess Federation. (Referred to here as the Sports Committee.)
INDEX
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A
ABC (TV network), 201, 205
Abramov, Lev, 9, 21, 37–38, 52–53, 62, 64, 276
Addison, William, 82
Agnew, Spiro, 230
Agustsson, Dadi, 164
Alekhine, Alexander, 35, 37, 40, 70–71, 73, 244, 310
Alekhine Memorial (tournament), 107
Alexander, C. H. O’D., 166, 209
Ali, Muhammad, 11, 301
All-Union Chess Section, 36
Andersson, Benny, 308
Andrew, Christopher, 249
Andropov, Yuri, 261
Angola, 293
anti-Semitism, 26–27, 37, 61, 305, 306
Appolonov, General, 292
Arledge, Roone, 205
Armstrong, Herbert, 15
Arnarson, Ingolfur, 122
Arnlaugsson, Gudmundur, 174, 175, 242
Astavin, Sergei, 154, 184, 250, 256, 257
Auden, W. H., 122, 191
Augustin, Dadi, 241, 242
Averbakh, Yuri, 7, 19–20, 62, 68, 118, 120, 259, 289
B
Bakhtin, Mikhail, 59–60
Balashov, Yuri, 88
Baldursson, Curt, 178
Barden, Leonard, 148, 149, 227
Barreras, Jose Luis, 16
Baturinskii, Viktor, 56, 58, 62, 64–66, 68, 92, 95, 99, 104, 107–10, 114–17, 121, 147, 253, 255, 260, 265, 289–92
BBC, 70, 153–54, 227
Bebchuk, Yevgeni, 57, 67, 118
Beilin, Mikhail, 43, 54, 64, 65, 66, 103, 106, 113, 120, 121
Benko, Pal, 14, 82, 85
Benson, Harry, 246, 285
Bernstein, Carl, 231
Bernstein, Sid, 205
Bezold, Michael, 73, 303–4
