FIDE President Folke Rogard: The Lawyer Who Organized Chess in the Shadow of the Cold War - Hardcover

Lindberg, Malm Henrik

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 9083429032 ISBN 13: 9789083429038

Verlag: Thinkers Publishing, 2024

Inhaltsangabe

This book is, in one way, a biography of Folke Rogard, focusing mostly on his roles as FIDE President and organizer of modern chess. However, it only briefly discusses the other facets of his life as a father, husband, lawyer, businessman, and in private. The portrayal of Rogard primarily centers on his organization of chess and his presidency of FIDE, a position he held for more than two decades. Being in that genre, it aims to capture his personality—what his driving forces were and the constraints that held him back.

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Henrik Malm Lindberg is an associate professor in economic history at Uppsala University, a fellow at the Ratio Institute, and works as deputy Head of Secretariat at the Migration Studies Delegation. He is a regular contributor to many chess periodicals, writing mainly about historical aspects of the game or the players. He is a masterclass player, once barely above 2300, but those days seem to be gone. His claim to fame as a player comes less from his draw with an eighty-year-old Svetozar Gligoric and more from the win against a ten-year-old Magnus Carlsen. FIDE President Folke Rogard: The Lawyer Who Organized Chess in the Shadow of the Cold War is his first biography.

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Thinkers Publishing House has done it again – an absolute must-have for any student of chess history. And let’s be honest, aren’t we all, deep down, a bit of that? This book is a goldmine of information about Folke Rogard, not just in his role as FIDE president, but covering all aspects of his life. A truly magnificent book! 

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Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Thinkers Publishing
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2024
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 9083429032
• ISBN 13: 9789083429038
• Einband: Gebundene Ausgabe
• Auflage: 1
• Anzahl der Seiten: 336
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