Garry Kasparov on My Great Predecessors, Part 3

Garry Kasparov

• Publisher: Popular Chess
• eBook ISBN:
  9781857447453
• Year: 2004

The battle for the World Chess Championship has witnessed numerous titanic struggles which have engaged the interest not only of the chess enthusiasts but also of the public at large. The chessboard is the ultimate mental battleground and the world champions themselves are supreme intellectual gladiators. This magnificent compilation of play from the 1960s through to the 1970s forms the basis of the third part of Garry Kasparov's long-awaited definitive history of the World Chess Championship. Garry Kasparov, who is universally acclaimed as the greatest chess player ever, subjects the play from this era to a rigorous analysis--the examination being enhanced by the use of the latest chess software. This volume features the play of champions Tigran Petrosian (1963-1969) and Boris Spassky (1969-1972). However, this book is more than just a compilation of play from the greats of this era. Kasparov's biographies of these champions place them in a fascinating historical, political, and cultural context. Kasparov explains how each champion brought his own distinctive style to the chessboard and enriched the theory of the game with new ideas.

Table of contents

• Introduction
• 1 Tigran the Ninth
• Favourite Sacrifice
• The Challenger’s Mistake
• The Tiger wakes up
• Petrosian’s Lessons
• 2 Boris the Tenth
• The Hand of Bondarevsky
• ‘Forward, Kazimirych!’
• Index of Complete Games
• Bisguier.A-Stein.L, Interzonal Tournament, Stockholm 1962, 15th round
• Bobotsov.M-Petrosian.T, Lugano Olympiad 1968
• Botvinnik.M-Gligoric.S, Tel Aviv Olympiad 1964
• Byrne.R-Spassky.B, Candidates Match, San Juan 1974, 3rd game
• Fischer.R-Polugayevsky.L, Interzonal Tournament, Palma de Mallorca 1970, 11th round
• Gligoric.S-Stein.L, Yugoslavia-USSR Match, Lvov 1962
• Ivanchuk.V-Kasparov.G, Dos Hermanas 1996, 5th round
• Karpov.A-Spassky.B, Candidates Match, Leningrad 1974, 1st game
• Kasparov.G-Petrosian.T, Moscow 1981, 8th round
• Kasparov.G-Spassky.B, Niksic 1983, 8th round
• Keres.P-Portisch.L, Moscow 1967
• Khasin.A-Stein.L, 33rd USSR Championship, Tallinn 1965, 17th round
• Kotov.A-Gligoric.S, Candidates Tournament, Zurich 1953, 25th round
• Krogius.N-Stein.L, Ukraine-Russia Match, Kiev 1960
• Larsen.B-Spassky.B, ‘Match of the Century’, Belgrade 1970, 2nd round
• Parma.B-Petrosian.T, Alekhine Memorial Tournament, Moscow 1971, 9th round
• Petrosian.T-Botvinnik.M, World Championship Match, Moscow 1963, 15th game
• Petrosian.T-Fischer.R, Candidates Match, Buenos Aires 1971, 2nd game
• Petrosian.T-Gligoric.S, Rovinj-Zagreb 1970, 5th round