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Spassky's Best Games: A Chess Biography
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ISBN10: 9493257878
ISBN13: 9789493257870
Publisher: New In Chess
Published: Aug 15 2023
Pages: 272
Weight: 1.50
Height: 1.20 Width: 6.90 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
ISBN13: 9789493257870
Publisher: New In Chess
Published: Aug 15 2023
Pages: 272
Weight: 1.50
Height: 1.20 Width: 6.90 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
The Russian Boris Spassky was the perfect gentleman. He was a chess genius who became World Champion in 1969. But he was also gracious in defeat after he lost his title to the American Bobby Fischer in 1972 in the Match of the Century. This biography includes fifty of Spassky's best games, annotated by former Russian champion Alexey Bezgodov, and a biographical sketch of a few dozen pages, written by Dmitry Aleynikov, the Director of the Chess Museum in Moscow. Spassky was born in St. Petersburg in 1937; he moved to France in 1976 and returned to Russia in 2010. On his road to the World Championship, he defeated all his contemporaries convincingly in matches, including Paul Keres, Efim Geller, Mikhail Tal, Bent Larsen and Viktor Korchnoi. He lost his first match for the ultimate title against Tigran Petrosian but won in his second attempt in 1969. With his all-round style, fighting spirit and psychological insights, he could beat anybody anytime and, for example, won at least two games versus six other World Champions: Smyslov, Tal, Petrosian, Fischer, Karpov and Kasparov
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