The world chess championship between Boris Spassky and Bobby Fischer at Reykjavik in 1972 was the...

A companion volume to Larry Evans's selection from the 1960s, this book takes the story of the be...

In 1966 and 1969 Tigran Petrosian and Boris Spassky contested two epic battles for the world crow...

The Candidates' Tournament of 1959 was one of the most dramatic and exciting of all tournaments, ...

Jose Capablanca was a phenomenon who burst onto the chess world and took top prize in the first e...

This book combines the account and eye witness analysis by Golombek of the second and third of th...

Morphy, Charousek, Pillsbury, Fischer... the history of chess is illuminated by shooting stars wh...

All too often chess openings books consist of reams of variations and sub-variations and brackete...

Richard Réti (1889-1929) was both a master player and a superb endgame composer. He was also a pr...

Inspiration and controversy alike still surround the 1948 match tournament.Why for example was ...