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On March 24, 1946, the 4th world chess champion, Alexander
Alekhine, passed away. He was the first - and still the only -
champion to die while holding the title. To select a new champion,
a powerful quintuple round-robin was held in The Hague and in
Moscow. The 5 strongest players of the era took part in a grueling
two-month, 25-round tournament, one of the most important events in
the history of chess. It produced a new world champion, Mikhail
Botvinnik, and was the start of a new FIDE regulated era. This
splendid account of an epic championship includes a review of all
previous encounters between the participants, background
information, as well as all the games of the tournament, deeply
annotated by Euwe. You are invited to follow Mikhail Botvinnik,
Vassily Smyslov, Sam Reshevsky, Paul Keres and Max Euwe as they
battle for the title and the chess world starts its journey through
the post-World War II era and the beginning of the Soviet hegemony.
In 1972, at the age of 19, a young man named Robert (Bobby) James
Fischer broke the dominance of the Soviets in chess and changed the
face of the game forever. "Fischer World Champion!" goes behind the
scenes one of the greatest chess games ever played to tell the tale
of how a strange but brilliant youngster took on the might and
supremacy of the Soviet chess machine - and won. Not only does this
volume look at exactly how Bobby Fischer won the match, it also
focuses on the drama and intrigue that surrounded it - from
Fischer's sometimes incredible demands, to the worldwide media
frenzy the match caused. This superb volume will allow chess
enthusiasts everywhere to relive, blow-by-blow, one the greatest
moments in chess history.
Originally published as From My Games, 1920-1937, the fifth World
Champion comments on his rise to the top.Euwe was a hero in his
native country of the Netherlands, and his book explains why - Euwe
was one of the very few who could stand up to the mighty Alekhine.
Not only could Euwe hold his own, he scored some magnificent wins,
such as his sparkling sacrifice of a knight against Alekhine at
Zurich 1934 or the so called 'Pearl of Zandvoort' victory from the
1935 clash which elevated Euwe to the position of World Champion.
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