This book describes the intense rivalry--and collaboration--of the four players who created the golden era when USSR chess players dominated the world.
More than 200 annotated games are included, along with personal details--many for the first time in English.
Mikhail Tal, the roguish, doomed Latvian who changed the way chess players think about attack and sacrifice; Tigran Petrosian, the brilliant, henpecked Armenian whose wife drove him to become the world's best player; Boris Spassky, the .
Mcfarland & Company Tal, petrosian, spassky and korchnoi: a chess multibiography with 207 games, paperback/andrew soltis
