- Paperback: 260 pages
- Publisher: Hardinge Simpole Limited; New edition edition (April 2002)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 1843820005
- ISBN-13: 978-1843820000
- Product Dimensions: 21.6 x 14 x 1.5 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 611,352 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Cafferty covers the career of the brilliantly aggressive and stunningly speculative Soviet Grandmaster Boris Spassky through where he conquers Petrosian, on to the celebrated match of the century against the mercurial Bobby Fischer. Contains the very best of Boris Spassky.
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
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great games by a great champion well annotated,
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This review is from: Spassky's 100 Best Games: The Rise of Boris Spassky, 1949-1971 (Hardinge Simpole Chess Classics) (Paperback)
boris spassky is one of the greats of chess. he became world champion by defeating petrosian in 1969 and lost the title in 1972 in the most famous chess match of all time against bobby fischer.bernard cafferty was one time editor of the british chess magazine a former chess columnist of the sunday times newspaper in the uk and a frequent competitor in the british chess championship. he is alos a fluent russian reader and speaker and thus had access to all the most important soviet sources when writing his notes. this is a classic book -it is in the older descriptive notation and it takes spasskys story only up to the period when he ceased to be world champion-so there are no wins against karpov or kasparov and the second match with fischer in 1992 is not covered. however it is an important document with excellent games and well crafted notes and will adorn any chess library. hardinge simpole publishing are to be congratulated on reissuing this book.
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This review is from: Spassky's 100 Best Games: The Rise of Boris Spassky, 1949-1971 (Hardinge Simpole Chess Classics) (Paperback)
Bernard Cafferty is the former editor of the British Chess Magazine and former weekly chess editor of the London Sunday Times. He is also an expert speaker and reader of the Russian language.
In this book he covers the career of the brilliantly aggressive and stunningly speculative Soviet Grandmaster Boris Spassky up to the point where he conquers Tigran Petrosian and becomes world champion. He then carries the story on to the celebrated match of the century against the mercurial Bobby Fischer. In other words, this book contains the very best of Boris Spassky. Spassky's games at their best exhibit an almost mystical feel for the initiative. At times material is offered for little tangible compensation, only for Spassky's forces to gather and deliver some unpredictable death blow. These games are classics and the comments to them are based on the best analyses of Soviet Grandmasters, in whose language Cafferty was, for a western chess writer, uniquely fluent.
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By Hugh Davies "Teenage Chess Prodigy" - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Spassky's 100 Best Games: The Rise of Boris Spassky, 1949-1971 (Hardinge Simpole Chess Classics) (Paperback)
Bernard Cafferty is the former editor of the British Chess Magazine and former weekly chess editor of the London Sunday Times. He is also an expert speaker and reader of the Russian language.
In this book he covers the career of the brilliantly aggressive and stunningly speculative Soviet Grandmaster Boris Spassky up to the point where he conquers Tigran Petrosian and becomes world champion. He then carries the story on to the celebrated match of the century against the mercurial Bobby Fischer. In other words, this book contains the very best of Boris Spassky. Spassky's games at their best exhibit an almost mystical feel for the initiative. At times material is offered for little tangible compensation, only for Spassky's forces to gather and deliver some unpredictable death blow. These games are classics and the comments to them are based on the best analyses of Soviet Grandmasters, in whose language Cafferty was, for a western chess writer, uniquely fluent. 2 of 8 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
best games by a great champion,
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This review is from: Spassky's 100 Best Games: The Rise of Boris Spassky, 1949-1971 (Hardinge Simpole Chess Classics) (Paperback)
the author bernard cafferty is a russia expert who followed spassky's chess career closely. spassky himself is famous as bobby fischer's opponent in the reykjvik match of the century between the reps of the usa and ussr.spassky's games are vibrant with sacrifices and each one is painstakingly annotated.a very useful training kit as well as highly enjoyable! |
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