Smyslov launched his first bid for the supreme title in the 1948 match tournament - coming second...

The world chess championship between Boris Spassky and Bobby Fischer at Reykjavik in 1972 was the...

Moscow, in the autumn of 1984, was the setting for a clash between two of the all-time greats of ...

At the height of the British Empire, the chess loving Indian servant, Sultan Khan, arrived in the...

A companion to Reshevsky's Best Games: Volume 1, this book contains numerous rich masterpieces fr...

During the 1930s, it appeared that the USA, not the USSR, would inevitably become the dominant fo...

The essential sequel to Peter Clarke's companion book on Tal, Mikhail Tal's Best Games of Chess. ...

Richard Reti was a formidable over the board grandmaster as shown by his victories at the splendi...

Compiled by three grandmasters and two international masters this scholarly treatise explains in ...

The King's Indian is noted as a dynamic counter-attacking defence par excellence. This book descr...

In Chess Praxis Nimzowitsch elaborates on the strategies first adumbrated in My System with a ser...

Tarrasch was the dominant force in European chess in the early 1890s and his ability to win top l...