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Informationen zum Autor Grandmaster Andrew Soltis, nine times champion of the Marshall Chess Club, New York Post editor and Chess Life columnist, is the author of dozens of chess books. He lives in New York City. Klappentext 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 the world's best player; Boris Spassky, the prodigy who survived near-starvation and later bouts of melancholia to succeed Petrosian--but is best remembered for losing to Bobby Fischer; and "Evil" Viktor Korchnoi, whose mixture of genius and jealousy helped him eventually surpass his three rivals (but fate denied him the title they achieved: world champion). Zusammenfassung 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis PrefaceIntroduction: The Soviet Team of Rivals¿1.¿Four Boys¿2.¿Growing Pains¿3.¿Overkill¿4.¿Culture War¿5.¿Spassky, Spassky, Spassky!¿6.¿Volshebnik¿7.¿Three Directions¿8.¿A Takeoff, an Apogee and a Crash¿9.¿Why Not Me?10.¿Private Lives, Public Games11.¿Candidacy12.¿Humors13.¿Whose Risk Is Riskier?14.¿The Fischer Factor15.¿Countdown to CalamityEpilogue: Four Aging MenAppendix A: Chronology, 1929-2016Appendix B: Ratings ComparisonChapter NotesBibliographyIndex of OpponentsIndex of Openings-Traditional NamesIndex of Openings-ECO CodesGeneral Index
