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- Tal, Petrosian, Spassky and Korchnoi (out of print)
Tal, Petrosian, Spassky and Korchnoi (out of print)
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- Soltis A.
- McFarland
- 388 blz.
- Engels
- 2019
- Hardcover
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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).
Content
001 Preface
005 Introduction: The Soviet Team of Rivals
015 1. Four Boys
043 2. Growing Pains
062 3. Overkill
079 4. Culture War
093 5. Spassky, Spassky, Spassky!
109 6. Volshebnik
133 7. Three Directions
151 8. A Takeoff, an Apogee and a Crash
180 9. Why Not Me?
197 10. Private Lives, Public Games
222 11. Candidacy
247 12. Humors
276 13. Whose Risk Is Riskier?
301 14. The Fischer Factor
318 15. Countdown to Calamity
335 Epilogue: Four Aging Men
339 Appendix A: Chronology, 1929-2016
353 Appendix B: Ratings Comparison
355 Chapter Notes
373 Bibliography
377 Index of Opponents
379 Index of Openings - Traditional Names
381 Index of Openings - ECO Codes
382 General Index
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).
Content
001 Preface
005 Introduction: The Soviet Team of Rivals
015 1. Four Boys
043 2. Growing Pains
062 3. Overkill
079 4. Culture War
093 5. Spassky, Spassky, Spassky!
109 6. Volshebnik
133 7. Three Directions
151 8. A Takeoff, an Apogee and a Crash
180 9. Why Not Me?
197 10. Private Lives, Public Games
222 11. Candidacy
247 12. Humors
276 13. Whose Risk Is Riskier?
301 14. The Fischer Factor
318 15. Countdown to Calamity
335 Epilogue: Four Aging Men
339 Appendix A: Chronology, 1929-2016
353 Appendix B: Ratings Comparison
355 Chapter Notes
373 Bibliography
377 Index of Opponents
379 Index of Openings - Traditional Names
381 Index of Openings - ECO Codes
382 General Index