{"product_id":"tal-petrosian-spassky-and-korchnoi-a-chess-multibiography-with-207-games-9781476683645","title":"Tal, Petrosian, Spassky and Korchnoi: A Chess Multibiography with 207 Games","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Andrew Soltis\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: McFarland \u0026amp; Company\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: McFarland \u0026amp; Company\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Chess\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e 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. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e 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 prodigy who survived near-starvation and later bouts of melancholia to succeed Petrosian--but is best remembered for losing to Bobby Fischer; and \"Evil\" Viktor Korchnoi, whose mixture of genius and jealousy helped him eventually surpass his three rivals (but fate denied him the title they achieved: world champion).\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Atlantic Books","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":46357740552343,"sku":"9781476683645","price":4649.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9781476683645.webp?v=1768736042","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/tal-petrosian-spassky-and-korchnoi-a-chess-multibiography-with-207-games-9781476683645","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}