Tal, Petrosian, Spassky and Korchnoi

A Chess Multibiography with 207 Games

von Andrew Soltis

396 Seiten, Taschenbuch

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

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).

• Themen: Lifestyle, Hobbys und Freizeit Hobbys, Rätsel und Spiele Spiele für Drinnen Brettspiele, Strategiespiele Schach
• ISBN: 9781476683645
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 01.05.2020
• Größe: 254 x 178 mm
• Verlag: McFarland