This Crazy World of Chess
Larry Evans, "This Crazy World of Chess"
English | 2007 | ISBN: 1580422187 | PDF | pages: 299 | 4.0 mb
English | 2007 | ISBN: 1580422187 | PDF | pages: 299 | 4.0 mb
Fascinating, intriguing, and controversial, the dean of American chess tells the never-before-told machinations and stories of world championship chess and what really goes on behind the scenes of the game at its highest level. If you think that chess and marbles are the only games free from politics, you can scratch that idea. These 101 entertaining dispatches from the front deal with the crazy world of chess ranging from politics, Fischermania (and Fischer's paranoid antics), the real deal behind the deep blue supercomputer that beat Kasparov, to just plain gossip and fun.