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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 59. Chapters: Chess players, Chess problemists, Sam Loyd, Vladimir Nabokov, Edward Plunkett, 18th Baron of Dunsany, Francois-Andre Danican Philidor, Alexander Beliavsky, Paul Keres, Adolf Anderssen, Vasily Smyslov, Methods for comparing top chess players throughout history, Comins Mansfield, John Nunn, Pal Benko, V. R. Parton, Chess prodigy, Leopold Mitrofanov, Yuri Averbakh, Richard Reti, Clare Benedict, Jim Slater, Noam Elkies, Henri Rinck, Genrikh Kasparyan, Milan Vukcevich, Alexander Kazantsev, Jan Rusinek, Thomas Rayner Dawson, Alexander Petrov, Otto Blathy, Charles Masson Fox, Leonid Kubbel, Erich Zepler, Karl Gottlieb von Windisch, Richard K. Guy, Chess composer, Alexey Troitsky, John Roycroft, Jean Dufresne, Semyon Alapin, Walter Grimshaw, Nenad Petrovi, Bernhard Horwitz, Gia Nadareishvili, Alexander Rueb, Karel Traxler, Hermanis Matisons, Hrvoje Bartolovi, Old ich Duras, Friedrich Amelung, Marko Klasinc, Antonin Novotny, Joseph Plachutta, Nathaniel Cook, Alexander Pituk, Tivadar Kardos, Beniamino Vergani, Yoel Aloni, udovit La ny, Josef Kling, Karl Fabel, Max Bezzel, Christian Donninger. Excerpt: Paul Keres (January 7, 1916 - June 5, 1975), was an Estonian chess grandmaster, and a renowned chess writer. He was among the world's top players from the mid-1930s to the mid-1960s. Keres narrowly missed a chance at a World Chess Championship match on five occasions. He won the 1938 AVRO tournament, which led to negotiations for a World Championship match against champion Alexander Alekhine, but the match never took place due to World War II. Then after the war he was runner-up in the Candidates' Tournament on four consecutive occasions. Due to these and other strong results, many chess historians consider Keres the strongest player never to become World Chess Champion. He was nicknamed "The Crown Prince of Chess." Keres was...
