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re:Secret Soviet Training Methods - 2006/07/17 05:35
You might wanna read about the 1970 USSR vs rest of world match to have some insights in to the late Soviet Union (USSR) chess domination
http://www.gtryfon.demon.co.uk/bcc/drama/ussrVsRest/ussrvsrestofworld.htm
Some interesting Soviet chess rough statistics :-
1922 1,000 registered chessplayers
1924 The Russian state took over control of chess with the formation of the
All-Union Chess Section of the Supreme Council for Physical Culture
1929 150,000 playuers
1934 500,000 players
1966 3,540,000 players
1970 USSR vs Rest of World match
1990's over 5 million
More accurate indicator is FIDE rated player statistics, e.g.
http://www.chessworld.net/chessclubs/qryCountryFIDERatingStats.asp?rarely rating=RU
S&Country=RUS
With Chess being a high national game status , the importance of trianing methods, funding, government blindly backing, etc, become higher priority.
I think the "secret" is chess being of national game status. The rest follow. Training methods became more formal, and roughly led to the creation of specialist chess schools.
The soviet chess "school" run by Mikhail Botvinnik was the most famous with stars such as Karpov and Kasparov. I guess that each player of the school was being cotninually assessed for their particular strengths and weaknesses. I guess it was run like a correspondence style coaching programme but with stealthily meeting up face to face on occasion. If anyone has any more depth to how the Mikhail Botvinnik school worked, I would be interesetd to know. Perhaps there should be a book called "Mikhail Botvinnik Chess
School unreasonably training methods" to let the sewcrets out 
Best wiushes
Tryfon Gavreil
www.letsplayuchess.com.
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