Karolyi: Boris Spasskys Best Games 1 - The Rising Star (hardcover) Bestseller Open games are known to

Open games are known to lead to sharp positions

Demonstrates how to build pressure without offering unnecessary counter-chances to the opponent

Every chess fan marvels at the wonderful combinations with which famous masters win their games

Is this book primarily about Fischer's biography or his chess games

Karolyi: Boris Spasskys Best Games 1 - The Rising Star (hardcover) Bestseller Open games are known toBoris Spassky is the most underappreciated World Champion in chess history, remembered as the Soviet who lost to Bobby Fischer in 1972. In this two volume work, biographer extraordinaire Tibor Karolyi puts the focus on Spassky's brilliant career and life story. Born in 1937, Spassky barely escaped with his life when evacuating from the Siege of Leningrad as a young boy. This book tells the story of how that boy subsequently learned to play chess and