num_pages: 394
description: 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 world champion).
language: English
title: Tal, Petrosian, Spassky and Korchnoi: A Chess Multibiography with 207 Games
publisher: McFarland