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Tal, Petrosian, Spassky and Korchnoi: A Chess Multibiography with 207 Games

Tal, Petrosian, Spassky and Korchnoi: A Chess Multibiography with 207 Games

Soltis, Andrew

Paperback

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ISBN10: 1476683646
ISBN13: 9781476683645
Publisher: McFarland & Company
Published: Jun 4 2020
Pages: 394
Weight: 1.55
Height: 0.90 Width: 6.90 Depth: 9.90
Language: 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).

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