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Spassky's Best Games by Alexey Bezgodov

Spassky's Best Games

A Chess Biography

Alexey Bezgodov, Dmitry Aleynikov

New in Chess · Print & ebook · August 30, 2023

The Russian Boris Spassky was the perfect gentleman.

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Who it’s for
Annotated games and a biographical sketch trace Boris Spassky’s chess career and championship path.
Genres
Chess, Sports Lives
Published
New in Chess, August 30, 2023

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About this book

The Russian Boris Spassky was the perfect gentleman. He was a chess genius who became World Champion in 1969. But he was also gracious in defeat after he lost his title to the American Bobby Fischer in 1972 in the Match of the Century. This biography includes fifty of Spassky’s best games, annotated by former Russian champion Alexey Bezgodov, and a biographical sketch of a few dozen pages, written by Dmitry Aleynikov, the Director of the Chess Museum in Moscow.

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Spassky was born in St. Petersburg in 1937; he moved to France in 1976 and returned to Russia in 2010. On his road to the World Championship, he defeated all his contemporaries convincingly in matches, including Paul Keres, Efim Geller, Mikhail Tal, Bent Larsen and Viktor Korchnoi. He lost his first match for the ultimate title against Tigran Petrosian but won in his second attempt in 1969. With his all-round style, fighting spirit and psychological insights, he could beat anybody anytime and, for example, won at least two games versus six other World Champions: Smyslov, Tal, Petrosian, Fischer, Karpov and Kasparov

Spassky’s Chess Career

Annotated games and a biographical sketch trace Boris Spassky’s chess career and championship path.

Come here for

  • Fifty Spassky games annotated by Alexey Bezgodov
  • A biographical sketch by Dmitry Aleynikov

Expect

  • Fifty games, each presented with annotations
  • A few-dozen-page biographical sketch

Where it sits

Sports Lives87%
Chess84%

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Publisher categories

  • Chess
Authors
Alexey Bezgodov, Dmitry Aleynikov
Publisher
New in Chess
Published
August 30, 2023
Format
Print & ebook
Reading lane
Chess