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Mikhail Tal

The Shooting Star of Chess

Harry Golombek author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Zeticula Ltd

Published:19th Mar '04

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Morphy, Charousek, Pillsbury, Fischer...the history of chess is illuminated by shooting stars who burn briefly across the chess firmament, only to vanish without trace. The parabolic career of the Latvian genius Mikhail Tal conforms all too well to this astonishing pattern. As a virtually unknown student in 1957 Tal swept aside the revered phalanxes of Soviet Grandmasters and ultimately annihilated the Red Czar of Soviet chess himself - Mikhail Botvinnik - all within a mere three year period.

ISBN: 9781843820796

Dimensions: 216mm x 140mm x 9mm

Weight: 221g

168 pages