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4.0 out of 5 stars great games by a great champion well annotated, 17 Jul 2002

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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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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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