Review: Moral Victories

Moral Victories is subtitled “The Story of Savielly Tartakower,” but it is important to note that the author makes it clear that this is what is termed as a historical novel. Generally, this refers to a book based upon a real person, place or event, but not entirely faithful to a strictly accurate historical account.

As David Lovejoy explains in his Preface, “This historical novel takes as its basis the life of chess grandmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower… I have incorporated into this work every biographical fact of which I am aware, but where there appears to be no data I have invented incidents and characters, and occasionally used real personages whom Tartakower could have met, but probably did not. The historical liberties I have taken are indicated in the notes at the end of the book.”

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