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

di Andrew Soltis (Autore)

McFarland & Co Inc, 2020

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).

• Autore: Andrew Soltis
• Editore: McFarland & Co Inc
• Anno: 2020
• Rilegatura: Paperback / softback
• Pagine: 394 p.
• Dimensioni: 254 x 178 mm
• Peso: 702 gr.
• EAN: 9781476683645

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