Tal, Petrosian, Spassky and Korchnoi

Erscheinungsjahr 2019
ISBN: 978-1-4766-7146-8
Verlag: McFarland

Buch, Englisch, 249 Seiten, Hardback, Format (B × H): 182 mm x 261 mm, Gewicht: 883 g

This book describes the intense rivalry and collaboration of the four players who created the golden era when USSR players dominated the world. It includes annotated games and personal details, many revealed for the first time in English, of: Mikhail Tal, the roguish, doomed Latvian who changed the way chess players think about attack and sacrifice; Tigran Petrosian, the brilliant, henpecked Armenian whose wife drove him to become the world’s best player; Boris Spassky, the prodigy who survived near-starvation and later bouts of melancholia to succeed Petrosian—but is best remembered for losing to Bobby Fischer; and Viktor Korchnoi, the “Evil Viktor” whose mixture of genius and jealousy helped him eventually surpass his three rivals. But fate denied him the title they achieved, world champion.

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Über Autor(innen)

Grandmaster Andy Soltis, eight times champion of the Marshall Chess Club, New York Post editor and Chess Life columnist, is the author of dozens of chess books. He lives in New York City.