O
objectivism, 66–67
Olafsson, Fridrik, 28, 151, 172, 185, 192
Olafsson, Torfi, 139
Olympic Games, 11, 232, 273, 275
Operation Barbarossa, 34
P
Palace of Young Pioneers, 39–40
Palsson, Asgeir, 215
Palsson, Saemundur (Saemi-Rock), 214–17, 220, 223, 283–85, 295, 297–99, 309
Panov, Vasili, 104, 107
Paulus, Friedrich von, 114
Pavlov, Sergei, 52, 90, 91, 99–104, 110, 112–14, 155, 156, 200, 261, 268, 275, 295, 301
Penkovskii, Oleg, 58, 254
Petrosian, Rona, 95
Petrosian, Tigran, 2, 9, 13, 14, 17, 20, 22, 23, 28, 29, 38, 43–48, 83, 86, 87, 93–98, 105–7, 114, 116–17, 121, 124, 128, 131, 137, 141, 184, 200, 204, 205, 253, 286, 291, 298–300, 310
Pfleger, Helmut, 81
Philidor, Francois, 207
Pichtchenko, Vladimir, 259
Pirc, Vasja, 241
Podgornii, Nikolai, 276
Politburo, 51–52, 109, 292
Polugaievskii, Lev, 86, 300
Ponomarenko, Yuri, 166
Porter, Colin, 215
Portisch, Lajos, 28, 86, 294, 295, 299
Postnikov, V.I., 63, 117–18, 120
Prefab Sprout (pop group), 308–9
“Problem of Paul Morphy, The” (Jones), 78
Pushkin, Aleksandr, 35, 73
R
Rabell Mendez, N., 127
Rahman, Mujibur, 227–28
Rajcsanyi, Zita, 305
random chess, 307
Reek, Jan van, 38
Rein, Yevgeni, 33–34, 60
Reisman, Marty (the Needle), 20
Reshevsky, Samuel, 7, 15, 17, 18, 20, 37, 82, 225
Reykjavik, 1–3, 50, 122, 123, 124, 133, 138, 145, 192, 195, 239, 307
Rice, Tim, 308
Rodionov, B. I., 290
Rogers, William, 143
Rosenwald competition, 7–8
Rossolimo (chess master), 225
Rostropovich, Mstislav, 91
Royal Game, The (Zweig), 74–75
Rubinstein, Akiba, 78
Rusakov, Konstantin, 276
Rusk, Dean, 186
Russell, Bertrand, 188
Russian Mind, The (Hingley), 56–57
Russian nationalism, 40, 55, 58, 60–61
Russian Orthodox Church, 38, 60
S
Sadat, Anwar al-, 279
Saga hotel, 133, 250, 282
Saidy, Anthony, 135, 137
Saidy, Fred, 137
St. Petersburg. See Leningrad
Sakharov, Andrei, 62
Schmid, Lothar, 1, 30, 95, 96, 137, 138, 147, 157, 158, 161, 167–69, 171–75, 178–84, 192, 208–9, 210, 213, 219, 220, 236, 241, 243, 245–47, 266, 281, 282, 307, 311
Schonberg, Harold, 73, 146
Schultz, Don, 20, 23–24, 213, 226, 264
Searching for Bobby Fischer (film), 306
Shakhmatni Listok (chess magazine), 61
Shchelokov, Nikolai, 292
Shcherbacheva, General, 293
Shcherbacheva, Marina, 293, 294
Shelepin, Aleksandr, 102
Sherwin, Jim, 6, 22, 30
Short, Nigel, 308
Sigfusson, Sigfus, 195, 286
Sigurdsson, Halldor E., 138, 282 64 (chess magazine), 36, 95, 100, 103
Skliarov, Yuri, 260–61
Skoff, Frank, 213–14, 223
Slater, James, 148–50, 283
Smith, Ken (Top Hat), 130–31, 236
Smith, Tommie, 11
Smyslov, Vasili, 28, 37, 38, 41, 45, 62, 80, 86, 105, 107, 121, 184, 200, 287