Description
Boris Spassky is one of the most celebrated World Champions in chess history, remembered as the Soviet who lost to Bobby Fischer in the famous match from 1972.
In this book the focus is on his games from 1948 to 1968 which allows biographer extraordinaire Tibor Karolyi to put 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 rose through the Soviet ranks to become the strongest player in the world in the late 1960s.
Softback, 344 pages, weight 630g.
