This magnificent compilation of play from the 1960s through to the 1970s forms the basis of the third part of Garry Kasparov's long-awaited definitive history of the World Chess Championship. This volume features the play of champions Tigran Petrosian (1963-1969) and Boris Spassky (1969-1972).
Garry Kasparov, the thirteenth world champion and widely acclaimed as the greatest player ever, assesses the contribution of his 12 great predecessors. This is the second part of a three-volume series.
The history of sport has seen many gladiatorial clashes: Ali v Frazier in boxing, McEnroe v Borg in tennis, Prost v Senna in motor racing. This title analyses the clashes from 1984 and 1985, giving author's opinions both on the political machinations surrounding the matches as well as the games.
In Checkmate! readers are invited to learn chess with Garry Kasparov, the World number one and the most famous figure in chess history, as their teacher. In this book chess players can discover all the various pieces and how they move, how to attack and how to defend, how to capture, and, crucially, how to give check and deliver checkmate.
"A modern history of the early development of chess."
Bobby Fischer's spurt towards chess summit (1970-1972) marked approach of an era affecting various aspects of game and opening theory. Fischer demonstrated the need for deep preparation with both colours, expanded the range of openings knowledge, and laid the foundations for professional chess. This book tells story of this opening revolution.
Between 1955-1972, Bobby Fischer, more or less single-handedly, took on the might of the Soviet Chess Empire and won. In this book, a must for all chess players, the author analyses Fischer's greatest games and his legacy.
This book, the fifth in Garry Kasparov's magnificent history of the World Chess Championship, catalogs what is probably the greatest rivalry ever for the ultimate chess title.
Garry Kasparov on Garry Kasparov, part 1 is the first book in a major new three-volume series. This series will be unique by the fact that it will record the greatest chess battles played by the greatest chessplayer of all-time.
In this stimulating book for players of all ages, Garry Kasparov selects the best chess combinations from recent grandmaster play and presents them in a test-yourself format that everyone will enjoy.
This 3rd volume of the,'Garry Kasparov on Modern Chess' series concentrates on the third and fourth matches in this sequence: London/Leningrad 1986 and Seville 1987. Both matches were tremendously exciting and hard fought and both produced chess of an extremely high level.
This 4th volume of the,'Garry Kasparov on Modern Chess' series concentrates on all the games played between Garry Kasparov and Anatoly Karpov from 1988 to the present day and features their fifth World Championship match played in New York and Lyons 1990.
Drawing on instructive stories, this book reveals the strategic ways of thinking that always give a player - in life as in chess - the edge. It also reveals how and why the game of chess is a fitting and powerful teacher of how to be prepared for, and how to win in, even the most competitive situations.