Tal, Petrosian, Spassky and Korchnoi (eBook)

A Chess Multibiography with 207 Games

Soltis Andrew Soltis (Autor)

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2018
394 Seiten
McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers (Verlag)
978-1-4766-3478-4 (ISBN)

Infos

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 "e;Evil"e; 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).

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 6.12.2018
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Romane / Erzählungen
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Freizeit / Hobby ► Spielen / Raten
• ISBN-10: 1-4766-3478-5 / 1476634785
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4766-3478-4 / 9781476634784