Description
A signed copy by the Australian author but obviously we have limited supplies. A novel based on the life of chess master Savielly Tartakower using research for a planned biography. Tartakower was a passionate man who fought for the Austro Hungarian Empire in 1914-18 and then for the Allies against Germany in the Second World War. He changed nationalities four times, being born Russian and becoming in turn Austrian, Ukrainian, Polish and French. A debonair gambler, poet and wit, he was yet haunted throughout his life by a youthful indiscretion in pre-war Vienna. And he was also a world class chess master who left a legacy of beautiful play and fascinating accounts of the game. In life inscrutable, half a century after his death some of Tartakower’s mystery can now be fathomed. Softback 285 pages.
