Evil-Doer: Half a Century with Viktor Korchnoi by Genna Sosonko. Elk & Ruby 2018. These days it seems like all the top grandmasters have friendly relations with one another and nobody really appears to dislike anyone else. They play blitz, ...
Today is the birthday of Boris Vasilievich Spassky - the World Champion from 1969 to 1972. Spassky was born in Leningrad on 30 January, 1937 and is the senior member of what he has called "the world's smallest trade union" made up of former world...
Bobby Fischer: The Final Years. A Personal Memoir by Gardar Sverrisson (Ugla Publishing, Reykjavik 2019) The poignant, slightly out-of-focus photograph heading this review shows Bobby Fischer with his mother, Regina (one assumes this was ...
The Soviet School of Chess - as a subject in itself, not this particular book - is a vast topic that cannot possibly be covered by one author, so naturally I can only give an impression of it in these two relatively brief articles. An in-depth stu...
The Soviet School of Chess by Alexander Kotov and Mikhail Yudovich (Dover, 1961) is one of my favourite chess books. Published in the West during the dark days of the Cold War, it came with an anonymous introductory warning about the "highly energ...
