Tal, Petrosian, Spassky and Korchnoi
A Chess Multibiography with 207 Games
Seiten
2020
McFarland & Co Inc (Verlag)
978-1-4766-8364-5 (ISBN)
McFarland & Co Inc (Verlag)
978-1-4766-8364-5 (ISBN)
Describes the intense rivalry - and collaboration - of the four players who created the golden era when USSR chess players dominated the world. More than 200 annotated games are included, along with personal details - many for the first time in English.
This book describes the intense rivalry--and collaboration--of the four players who created the golden era when USSR chess players dominated the world. More than 200 annotated games are included, along with personal details--many for the first time in English.
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 "Evil" Viktor Korchnoi, whose mixture of genius and jealousy helped him eventually surpass his three rivals (but fate denied him the title they achieved: world champion).
This book describes the intense rivalry--and collaboration--of the four players who created the golden era when USSR chess players dominated the world. More than 200 annotated games are included, along with personal details--many for the first time in English.
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 "Evil" Viktor Korchnoi, whose mixture of genius and jealousy helped him eventually surpass his three rivals (but fate denied him the title they achieved: world champion).
Grandmaster Andrew Soltis, nine 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.
Preface
Introduction: The Soviet Team of Rivals
1. Four Boys
2. Growing Pains
3. Overkill
4. Culture War
5. Spassky, Spassky, Spassky!
6. Volshebnik
7. Three Directions
8. A Takeoff, an Apogee and a Crash
9. Why Not Me?
10. Private Lives, Public Games
11. Candidacy
12. Humors
13. Whose Risk Is Riskier?
14. The Fischer Factor
15. Countdown to Calamity
Epilogue: Four Aging Men
Appendix A: Chronology, 1929–2016
Appendix B: Ratings Comparison
Chapter Notes
Bibliography
Index of Opponents
Index of Openings—Traditional Names
Index of Openings—ECO Codes
General Index
| Erscheinungsdatum | 01.05.2020 |
|---|---|
| Zusatzinfo | 30 photos, 207 games, appendices, notes, bibliography, indexes |
| Verlagsort | Jefferson, NC |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 178 x 254 mm |
| Gewicht | 685 g |
| Themenwelt | Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte |
| Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Freizeit / Hobby ► Spielen / Raten | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-4766-8364-6 / 1476683646 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-4766-8364-5 / 9781476683645 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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