Rostislav Sinicyn Presents Rare Books From His Private Library to RCF Chess Museum

Andrey Filatov thanks a legendary figure skater.

The Soviet figure skating champion and a well-known coach Rostislav Sinicyn donated rare chess books dated from the end of the 1920s to the beginning of the 1930s from his library to the RCF Chess Museum. Among the gifted books there are Indian Defense by a legendary Savielly Tartakower (1925), a collection of games played during the tournament in New York commented by S. Tartakower from Chess Leaflet magazine (1927), the first monograph about the Sicilian Defense by Albert Becker in the Russian language (translated by L. Kubbel, 1929), the first Russian edition of Alexander Alekhine’s book On the Road to the World Championship (1932) and other valuable items. 

For a long time, the ice dancer’s father had been working as a chess coach in Dnipro; the city had hosted several Sinicyn Memorials thanks to the support of President of the Russian Chess Federation Andrey Filatov.

Head of the RCF Andrey Filatov thanked a famous ice dancer on behalf of all chess players and expressed the hope that the Sinicyn family’s books would help new generations of players cognize secrets of chess.