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

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  • Title Tal, Petrosian, Spassky and Korchnoi: A Chess Multibiography with 207 Games
  • Author Andrew Soltis
  • Binding Library Binding
  • Pages 394
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher McFarland & Company
  • Illustrated Yes
  • ISBN 9781476671468 / 147667146X
  • Weight 2 lbs (0.91 kg)
  • Dimensions 10.1 x 7.1 x 1.3 in (25.65 x 18.03 x 3.30 cm)
  • Ages 18 to UP years
  • Grade levels 13 - UP
  • Library of Congress subjects Spassky, Boris Vasilyevich, Korchnoi, Viktor
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2018039096
  • Dewey Decimal Code B

About the author

Grandmaster Andrew Soltis, eight times champion of the Marshall Chess Club, New York Post editor and Chess Life columnist, is the author of dozens of chess books. He lives in New York City.

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

by Andrew Eden Soltis (1947- )

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388 pages with diagrams, photographs, tables, appendix, bibliography and indexes. Quarto (10 1/4" x 7 1/4") bound in original publisher's black cloth with gilt lettering to spine and cover. First edition.
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… Read More
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TAL, PETROSIAN, SPASSKY AND KORCHNOI; A CHESS MULTI BIOGRAPHY WITH 206 GAMES

TAL, PETROSIAN, SPASSKY AND KORCHNOI; A CHESS MULTI BIOGRAPHY WITH 206 GAMES

by Soltis, Andrew

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McFarland & Company, 2019. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. As new. McFarland & Company, 2019. first printing. 388pp., index, bibliography, black and white photographs and illustrations. Imperial 8vo. Black cloth with gold titles on front cover and spine. Upper corner tips lightly bumped, else As new unread hardcover.
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