BOOKS ABOUT WORLD CHAMPIONS

    The Magic Tactics of Mikhail Tal
    Learn from the Legend
    Mikhail Tal was one of the greatest geniuses of chess history. The magician from Riga, as he was known because of his dazzling attacking games, took the chess world by storm and in 1961, at the age of twenty-three, he won the world championship.
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    The Magic Tactics of Mikhail Tal

    Learn from the Legend
    Catalog Code: B0120NIC
    Our Price: $28.95

    Chess - The Fischer-Spassky Games
    Of the World Chess Championship
    This is the authoritative book on the famous 1972 Fischer Spassky Match, and the book by the strongest player to write about the match. An appendix at the end contains all 20 games of the match in Algebraic Notation plus the concluding diagram for each game. Also added the five games Fischer played against Spassky before the match, which had resulted in the lopsided score of three wins by Spassky and two draws, with no wins by Fischer.
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    Chess - The Fischer-Spassky Games

    Of the World Chess Championship
    Catalog Code: B0189IS
    Our Price: $14.95

    The Games of Tigran Petrosian - Volume 2
    1966-1983
    This is the second volume of a two-volume work on the games of Tigran Petrosian. The first volume has his games from 1942 to 1965. Tigran Petrosian was World Chess Champion from 1963 to 1969. He became the first player in the modern era to win a match to defend the world chess title, by defeating Boris Spassky in a match in 1966.
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    The Games of Tigran Petrosian - Volume 2

    1966-1983
    Catalog Code: B0186IS
    Our Price: $29.95

    Chess Psychologist World Champion Tal
    This book contains 60 games in Descriptive Notation annotated by Liepnieks and other Latvian masters including Edmars Mednis, Paul Tautvaisas and John Tums based on the notes by Tal. It also includes Tal's Chess Quiz based on 10 of Tal's games. (WARNING: This quiz is too difficult. You will not be able to solve the problems.)
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    Chess Psychologist World Champion Tal

    Catalog Code: B0179IS
    Our Price: $19.95

    World Champion Smyslov and His 120 Best Games
    This collection of best games of Smyslov is probably the best collection of his annotated games in Descriptive Notation. This book was first published in 1958, the year that Vassily Smyslov was World Chess Champion.
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    World Champion Smyslov and His 120 Best Games

    Catalog Code: B0178IS
    Our Price: $19.95

    Botvinnik the Invincible
    Botvinnik the Invincible was written in 1946, two years before Botvinnik won the World Chess Championship. The fact that it accurately predicts the ultimate victory by Botvinnink is itself significant.
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    Botvinnik the Invincible

    Catalog Code: B0177IS
    Our Price: $25.95

    Dr. Lasker's Chess Career 1889-1914
    Dr. Lasker's Chess Career 1889-1914 has become a rare book, almost impossible to obtain. I bought the book used for this reprint from a collector of rare books in Denmark.
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    Dr. Lasker's Chess Career 1889-1914

    Catalog Code: B0176IS
    Our Price: $19.95

    Fischer vs. Spassky
    The Chess Match of the Century
    The World Chess Championship Match 1972 The chess match of the century has finally taken place and chess masters throughout the world have already agreed that some of the games are among the greatest that have ever been played.
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    Fischer vs. Spassky

    The Chess Match of the Century
    Catalog Code: B0168IS
    Our Price: $19.95

    Botvinnik's Best Games 1947-1970
    This book covers the entire period when Botvinnik was World Chess Champion.
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    Botvinnik's Best Games 1947-1970

    Catalog Code: B0163IS
    Our Price: $25.95

    The World Chess Championship
    Updated to Include Fischer-Spassky Match
    The official Chess Championship of the World was inaugurated with the 1948 tournament.
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    The World Chess Championship

    Updated to Include Fischer-Spassky Match
    Catalog Code: B0160IS
    Our Price: $25.95

    Great Chess Upsets
    This book is a good read. Even without playing over the games, readers will find it enjoyable.
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    Great Chess Upsets

    Catalog Code: B0158IS
    Our Price: $25.95

    Chess Heritage of A.A. Alekhine - VOLUME 1 - RUSSIAN EDITION
    Alekhine has long earned a reputation not only a brilliant experience, but also the best chess writer and theoretician of the first half of 20th century. Alekhine's Games, which are shining examples of chess creativity, are provided with detailed notes.
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    Chess Heritage of A.A. Alekhine - VOLUME 1 - RUSSIAN EDITION

    Catalog Code: B0154IS
    Our Price: $25.95

    The Games of Tigran Petrosian - 1942-1965 - VOLUME 1
    This is the first of two volumes devoted to the chess career of former World Champion Tigran Petrosian, whose masterly positional play and near invincibility earned him the name of "Iron Tigran".
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    The Games of Tigran Petrosian - 1942-1965 - VOLUME 1

    Catalog Code: B0153IS
    Our Price: $29.95

    Capablanca - Move by Move
    Jose Raul Capablanca is a chess legend, world champion and quite simply one of the greatest players in the history of the game. His achievements and seemingly effortless style of play won many admirers, and his legacy includes a treasure of instructive games. Studying Capablanca's play is a must for any aspiring chess player. For Cyrus Lakdawala, it was a key factor in his chess development and improvement, and in this book he revisits many of his favourite Capablanca games.
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    Capablanca - Move by Move

    Catalog Code: B0353EM
    Our Price: $29.95

    Petrosian's Legacy
    This book was originally published in Russian as Tigran Vartanovich Petrosian Chess Lectures. The publisher was Soviet Radio. Every chess enthusiast should have this important work in his chess library.
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    Petrosian's Legacy

    Catalog Code: B0150IS
    Our Price: $19.95

    Bobby Fischer Comes Home
    The Final Years in Iceland, a Saga of Friendship and Lost Illusions
    Bobby Fischer Comes Home tells the story of their complicated friendship and paints an intimate portrait of the last years of the man who many see as the greatest chess player that ever lived.
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    Bobby Fischer Comes Home

    The Final Years in Iceland, a Saga of Friendship and Lost Illusions
    Catalog Code: B0109NIC
    Our Price: $19.95

    Garry Kasparov's Opening Repertoire
    This work has been updated in 2012 to include all of the latest World Chess Championship matches by Garry Kasparov.
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    Garry Kasparov's Opening Repertoire

    Catalog Code: B0137IS
    Our Price: $19.95

    Win Like Karpov!
    Learn to Play Chess Like Anatoly Karpov
    Win Like Karpov! begins with extensive Biography and Openings sections. There are four Karpov Early Games and six Karpov Classics.
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    Win Like Karpov!

    Learn to Play Chess Like Anatoly Karpov
    Catalog Code: B0066OB
    Our Price: $24.95

    Vishy Anand - World Chess Champion
    Life and Games
    This new expanded edition of the award-winning Vishy Anand: My Best Games of Chess (New Edition) features 30 extra games from the period of Anand's greatest successes.
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    Vishy Anand - World Chess Champion

    Life and Games
    Catalog Code: B0179GB
    Our Price: $29.95

    Struggle
    Lasker's book delves deeply into all phases of life and struggles. He attempts to create a general theory of all competitive activities, including chess, business and war.
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    Struggle

    Catalog Code: B0126IS
    Our Price: $18.95

    World Chess Championship Matches - BOOK 1
    All games are commented in informator style. Each match is present by short introduction on the four languages - English, German, Russian, Spanish. Steinitz, Lasker, Capablanca, Alekhine, Euwe

    "This three-volume anthology contains the collected and annotated games of all the matches for world chess championship between 1886 and 1998.
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    World Chess Championship Matches - BOOK 1

    Catalog Code: B0039EU
    Our Price: $24.95

    World Chess Championship Matches - BOOK 2
    This three-volume anthology contains the collected and annotated games of all the matches for world chess championship between 1886 and 1998. Among the games presented in this work are number of genuine masterpieces, the study of which will afford great pleasure to lovers of the game. Such material cannot age and cannot be consigned to oblivion.
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    World Chess Championship Matches - BOOK 2

    Catalog Code: B0040EU
    Our Price: $24.95

    World Chess Championship Matches - BOOK 3
    All games are commented in informatory style. Each match is present by short introduction on the four languages - English, German, Russian, Spanish. Karpov, Kasparov. This three-volume anthology contains the collected and annotated games of all the matches for world chess championship between 1886 and 1998.
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    World Chess Championship Matches - BOOK 3

    Catalog Code: B0041EU
    Our Price: $24.95

    Brain Games World Chess Championship 2000
    The Official Inside Story of Vladimir Kramnik's Sensational Match Win Against Garry Kasparov
    Grandmaster Ray Keene, chess impresario, broadcaster and writer, has been responsible for organising more world championship matches outside the USSR than any other person in the history of official contests. In 1986 he brought Kasparov and Karpov together and in 1993 Kasparov and Short. Finally, in 2000, after a five year gap with no world title match, Keene raised 2 million dollars to persuade Kasparov to defend his title in London against the rising Russian star Vladimir Kramnik. To almost universal surprise Kramnik toppled Kasparov after his 15 year reign and won with relative ease. He became World Champion without losing a single game, a feat not accomplished since Capablanca defeated Lasker in 1921.
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    Brain Games World Chess Championship 2000

    The Official Inside Story of Vladimir Kramnik's Sensational Match Win Against Garry Kasparov
    Catalog Code: B0203EM
    Our Price: $14.95

    Kasparov vs. Korchnoi - London 1983
    This much-await clash between two giants of the chess world attracted vast interest among all chess players.

    Garry Kasparov, the 20-year old Grandmaster from Baku, is already the second highest ranked player in the world and has won several top tournaments including the Soviet Championship. 52 year old Victor Korchnoi was a Grandmaster before Kasparov was even born and already had played two matches for the world title.
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    Kasparov vs. Korchnoi - London 1983

    Catalog Code: B0012AC
    Our Price: $19.95

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