15.5 x 16.5 cm. TOURNAMENT OF THE STRONGEST The youngest international master and the youngest participant in the championship, eighteen-year-old Boris Spassky, won the general sympathy of chess fans. V. Spassky played the entire tournament in good style, winning the right to participate in the international men's zonal tournament of candidates for a match with the world chess champion M. Botvinnik. In the photo: Boris Spassky (standing) with his coach A. Tolun analyzing a tournament game they just played. Photo by D.Kozlov. March 1955 AB-832

This item originates from the chess book collection of Zahari Stanchev, (April 27, 1920 - January 27, 1980) from Sofia, Bulgaria. Stanchev was Bulgaria's representative to FIDE in the 1960s, a writer of chess books, and an international arbiter.