Keres and David Bronstein. Levenfish was strong on the Black side of the French Defence and the Slav Defence, and generally preferred classical openings such as Ruy Lopez and Queen's Gambit, although he did from time to time toy with the hypermodern Grünfeld Defence and Nimzo-Indian Defence. Books Izbrannye partii i vospominaniya, by Grigory Levenfish, 1967. In Russian. Translated into English by Douglas Griffin and published by Quality Chess under the title Soviet Outcast in 2019. . Rook Endings, by Grigory Levenfish and Vasily Smyslov. Translated by Philip J. Booth, 1971, Batsford. . Sovremenny debyut, edited by Grigory Levenfish, 1940. In Russian. See also List of Jewish chess players References Bibliography External links 1889 births 1961 deaths Sportspeople from Piotrków Trybunalski People from Piotrków Governorate Russian people of Polish-Jewish descent Chess grandmasters Chess theoreticians Jewish chess players Chess players from the Russian Empire Soviet chess players Soviet chess writers Soviet male writers 20th-century Russian male writers Saint Petersburg State University alumni Jews from the Russian Empire 19th-century Polish Jews Soviet people of Polish-Jewish descent