Cafferty covers the career of the brilliantly aggressive and stunningly speculative Soviet Grandmaster Boris Spassky through where he conquers Petrosian, on to the celebrated match of the century against the mercurial Bobby Fischer. Contains the very best of Boris Spassky.

Spassky's 100 Best Games: The Rise of Boris Spassky, 1949 - 1971 (Hardinge Simpole Chess Classics S)

Humor & Entertainment

Barden, Leonard

Cafferty, Bernard

Puzzles & Games

Hardinge Simpole

Mikhail Tal took the chess world by storm when he blasted a path through the titans of  the global chess board - Fischer, Smyslov, Keres, Petrosian - and seized the crown of the mighty Botvinnik. Tal sacrificed as if there were no tomorrow and the very greatest were humbled and smashed by his whirlwind tactics.

Mikhail Tal's Best Games of Chess (Hardinge Simpole Chess Classics S)

Clarke, Peter H.

Not for Petrosian the sudden and dramatic storming of the highest chess bastions - he gradually moved up the ranks, perfecting his ultra strategic style and focussing on the elimination of loss, rather than victory at all costs. This softly-softly approach brought Petrosian the world crown and enabled him to retain it for six years.

Petrosian's Best Games of Chess 1946-1963 (Hardinge Simpole Chess Classics S)

Clarke, P. H.

Literature & Fiction

Ray Keene, responsible for organising more world championship matches outside the USSR than any other person in the history of official contests, in 2000, after a five year gap with no world title match, persuaded Kasparov to defend his title against Kramnik.

The Brain Games World Championship 2000

Keene, Raymond

Morris, Don

Inspiration and controversy alike still surround the 1948 match tournament. Why for example was the Polish grandmaster Miguel Najdorf not invited when US Grandmaster Reuben Fine dropped out?

The World Chess Championship 1948 (Hardinge Simpole Chess Classics S)

Golombek, Harry

For four decades - barring the brief intervention of Bobby Fischer - the Soviet Union dominated world chess and Russian grandmasters continue to lead the world even after the demise of the country they once represented. Written at the apex of Soviet success.

The Soviet School of Chess

Kotov, A

Yudovich, Y.

Soviet Chess is best read along with Kotov

Soviet Chess

Wade, R. G.

From 1948 until 1963 Mikhail Botvinnik, the iron man of soviet chess and chess board devotee of Josef Stalin, had maintained his grip on the supreme title. Tigran Petrosian was a super subtle strategist.

The World Chess Championship 1963 (Hardinge Simpole Chess Classics S)

Petrosian, Tigran

Botvinnik, Mikhail M

Botvinnik came saw and conquered at this 1941 meet of the top Grandmasters in the USSR.In the tournament Botvinnik dominated Keres, Smyslov, Boleslavsky, Bondarevsky and Lilienthal. Experts regard this as perhaps the best tournament book ever written.

Championship Chess

Botvinnik, Mikhail Moiseevich

The only British chess champion ever to be arrested and imprisoned for sedition, Winter was one of the more colourful characters of the British chess menagerie - an international master and chess correspondent both for the Manchester Guardian and the Daily Worker.

Kings of Chess

Winter, William

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