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Chess World Championship 1972 Fischer vs. Spassky by Larry Evans Ken Smith
Book by Larry Evans, Ken Smith
- GenresChess
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First published January 1, 1973
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Larry Evans
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Larry Melvin Evans, chess grandmaster.
Larry Melvin Evans, chess grandmaster.
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November 5, 2012
This is one of the two best books out of the absolute mountain of books on the 1972 Match of the Century ... Both Ken Smith and Larry Evans are well known names both on the playing, writing, and coaching fronts here in the USA ....
I recently obtained a copy of "Chess World Championship 1972" by Smith and Evans .. this one is a hardback in excellent condition with dust jacket in excellent shape (I see that a paperback edition is also available) ...unlike most chess books that will have a diagram every 20 moves or so, this book has a diagram for every move ... a move-by-move diagram with analysis ... a wonderful book to carry along with you if you can only hold seven to 10 moves in your head at a time which I'd guess are most of us chess players out there who don't play tournaments regularly .... of course, Fischer could read thru a game's notation as if speed-reading and see the board and the developments in his head ... like one of us fast forwarding thru a computer .pgn file ... so it's nice someone finally took pity on us patzers and gave us something to carry along without having to carry a board and pieces as well ...
with game analysis by Smith and Evans and some other articles here and there by other notables and a plethora of editorial-style cartoons marking the progress of the match in editorial cartoon caricature-style which apparently first appeared in Ches Digest Magazine for the match ...
along with the Bent Larsen analysis, this is one of the two books on the ins-and-outs of the games themselves you'll want to own ... as for the off-board antics, the superb "Bobby Fischer Goes to War" is the best on for the political and paranoiac intrigue
I recently obtained a copy of "Chess World Championship 1972" by Smith and Evans .. this one is a hardback in excellent condition with dust jacket in excellent shape (I see that a paperback edition is also available) ...unlike most chess books that will have a diagram every 20 moves or so, this book has a diagram for every move ... a move-by-move diagram with analysis ... a wonderful book to carry along with you if you can only hold seven to 10 moves in your head at a time which I'd guess are most of us chess players out there who don't play tournaments regularly .... of course, Fischer could read thru a game's notation as if speed-reading and see the board and the developments in his head ... like one of us fast forwarding thru a computer .pgn file ... so it's nice someone finally took pity on us patzers and gave us something to carry along without having to carry a board and pieces as well ...
with game analysis by Smith and Evans and some other articles here and there by other notables and a plethora of editorial-style cartoons marking the progress of the match in editorial cartoon caricature-style which apparently first appeared in Ches Digest Magazine for the match ...
along with the Bent Larsen analysis, this is one of the two books on the ins-and-outs of the games themselves you'll want to own ... as for the off-board antics, the superb "Bobby Fischer Goes to War" is the best on for the political and paranoiac intrigue
August 3, 2016
For chess fans, five stars for its great detail; for chess players, three stars for wallowing in detail about the obvious. For me, finding chess coverage on the front pages of newspapers was, well, extraordinary!
Larry Evans and Ken Smith were the ideal pair to write the report on the international circus that was the FIDE championship in 1972. Fischer vs. Spassky was a match the world of chess looked forward to eagerly. Fischer made a mockery of the it, though, and no one could rein him in. This book describes the brouhaha along with the chess. It's pretty well done, if you ask me.
Larry Evans and Ken Smith were the ideal pair to write the report on the international circus that was the FIDE championship in 1972. Fischer vs. Spassky was a match the world of chess looked forward to eagerly. Fischer made a mockery of the it, though, and no one could rein him in. This book describes the brouhaha along with the chess. It's pretty well done, if you ask me.
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