Smyslov launched his first bid for the supreme title in the 1948 match tournament - coming second...

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...

Compiled by three grandmasters and two international masters this scholarly treatise explains in ...

The King's Indian is noted as a dynamic counter-attacking defence par excellence. This book descr...

In Chess Praxis Nimzowitsch elaborates on the strategies first adumbrated in My System with a ser...

Tarrasch was the dominant force in European chess in the early 1890s and his ability to win top l...

A companion volume to Winning with the Nimzo, this book is the first part of a full explanation o...

With FIDE (the World Chess Federation) claiming that itsTournament in Libya - in fact, little m...

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

In 1981 - World Champion now for 6 years - Anatoly Karpov had reached the height of his powers. H...

A first hand account of the strengths and weaknesses, of the genius and foibles, of the world's e...