Karolyi: Boris Spasskys Best Games 1 - The Rising Star (hardcover) CT Greek grandmaster Vassilios Kotronias discusses

Greek grandmaster Vassilios Kotronias discusses their strengths

it's not easy to spot these evanescent moments in a hurried and tense tournament game

The average club player doesn't need to study hundreds of pages of chess opening theory

and Moscow defenses

wrote books on Nimzowitsch

Karolyi: Boris Spasskys Best Games 1 - The Rising Star (hardcover) CT Greek grandmaster Vassilios Kotronias discussesBoris 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 learned to play chess and