| Description |
1 online resource |
| Contents |
Introduction: The Soviet team of rivals -- 1. Four boys -- 2. Growing pains -- 3. Culture war -- 4. Overkill -- 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 games -- 11. Candidacy -- 12. Humors -- 13. Whose risk is riskier? -- 14. The Fischer factor -- 15. Countdown to calamity -- 16. Epilogue: Four aging men |
| Summary |
"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"-- Provided by publisher |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Tāls, Mihails, 1936-1992.
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Petrosi︠a︡n, Tigran Vartanovich, 1929-1984.
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Spassky, Boris Vasilyevich, 1937-
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Korchnoĭ, Viktor, 1931-2016.
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| SUBJECT |
Korchnoĭ, Viktor, 1931-2016 fast |
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Petrosi︠a︡n, Tigran Vartanovich, 1929-1984 fast |
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Spassky, Boris Vasilyevich, 1937- fast |
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Tāls, Mihails, 1936-1992 fast |
| Subject |
Chess players -- Soviet Union -- Biography
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Chess -- History -- 20th century
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BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- General.
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GAMES -- Board.
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Chess
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Chess players
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Soviet Union
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| Genre/Form |
Biographies
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History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781476634784 |
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1476634785 |
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