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

by Andrew Soltis

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1476683646
• ISBN13: 9781476683645
• Release Date: May 2020
• Publisher: McFarland and Company, Inc.
• Length: 394 Pages
• Weight: 1.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.9" x 9.9"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher