Boris Spassky's Best Games 1: The Rising Star

by Tibor Karolyi

Boris Spassky is the most underappreciated World Champion in chess history, remembered as the Soviet who lost to Bobby Fischer in 1972. In this two-volume work, biographer extraordinaire Tibor Karolyi puts the focus on Spassky's brilliant career and life story.

Born in 1937, Spassky barely escaped with his life when evacuating from the Siege of Leningrad as a young boy. This book tells the story of how that boy subsequently...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1784832006
• ISBN13: 9781784832001
• Release Date: November 2024
• Publisher: Quality Chess
• Length: 344 Pages