Tournament Books Years 1950-present

60 YEARS IN THE SAME ROOM

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Robert H Jones
A History of the Paignton Chess Congress
In this well researched book Bob Jones looks, from several different angles, at the sixty year history of the Paignton Chess Congress, which is probably unique in having been held annually in the same room at Oldway Mansion, the magnificent ballroom where Isidora Duncan once performed.
Firstly there is the story of the event itself, from it's creation in 1951 to 2010.
Jones also draws thumbnail sketches of ten remarkable personalities, some well-known and some forgotten, who have acted out roles of varying significance at the congress.
There are 60 games to play through, many either annotated by famous players or hitherto unpublished.
The book includes a chapter on the remarkable Singer family and the 200 year story of how their magnificent home became the venue of this event.
The story is illustrated throughout with 80 pictures, of which 8 are in full colour, and 27 charts and cross-tables.
Bob Jones has been actively involved in devon chess for 50 years. He writes on chess for the Western Morning News and co-wrote, with Owen Hindle, the definitive biography of the first British Champion, Cecil de Vere.
Published 2010, softback, 156 pages.

WORLD CHESS CHAMPIONSHIP 1951

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William Winter & Robert Wade
Reprint of the book, first published in 1951, on the Botvinnik-Bronstein World Championship match. All the games are given, with annotations as well as the authors' own impressions of the event and play. Chapters on the careers of the two contestants are included. Both authors were present in Moscow for this match and their annotations are a synthesis of the opinions of the various Soviet Grandmasters who were also in the press room as well as articles which appeared in Soviet and Hungarian periodicals. Please note: the games in this book are given in English descriptive notation (1. P-K4 etc.)
Published 2003, softback, 142 pages.

OPATIJA 1953

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A J Gillam (Ed)
All the games, mostly un-annotated, from this event won by Matanovic from Fuderer, Rabar and Unzicker. Crosstable included.
pub. 2000, softback, stapled, 35 pages.

ZURICH INTERNATIONAL CHESS TOURNAMENT 1953

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David Bronstein
One of the all time great tournament books, packed as it is with great games and penetrating observations by Bronstein. The tournament was held to find a challenger for the World Championship and, as such, featured most of the world's strongest players. In addition to Bronstein the participants included Smyslov, Keres, Petrosian, Reshevsky. Najdorf and many more top GMs. Some of the games have become classics and several appeared recently in the "Mammoth Book of the World's Great Chess Games".
pub. 1979, softback, 368 pages.

BOTVINNIK - SMYSLOV

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Mikhail Botvinnik
Three World Chess Championship Matches: 1954, 1957, 1958.
The three hard-fought matches for the World Championship between Mikhail Botvinnik and Vasily Smyslov appear together in a single book for the first time. The matches resulted in one match win for each player with a drawn match in 1954. The games from the 1954 and 1958 matches are annotated by Botvinnik whilst the games from the 1957 match are annotated by contemporary masters such as Ragozin, Tolush, Aronin and Lilienthal. No complete book on the 1957 match ever appeared in Russian language. In addition, the contents of Botvinnik's notebooks, containing his opening preparation, from the 1957 and 1958 matches are reproduced here in what is a fascinating account of top-level chess at the height of Soviet domination of the chess world. The book has been compiled and edited by Igor Botvinnik, nephew of Mikhail, and translation from the Russian is by Steve Giddins.
Published 2009, softback, 287 pages.

AHMEDABAD 1955

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Vijay D Pandit
All 69 games, with annotations, of India's team selection tournament of the Moscow Olympiad 1956 with two facsimiles of scoresheets, a group photo and other documentation. 13 players, won by Swiss national Robert Fontana.
Published 2011, softback, stapled booklet with plastic jacket. 43 pages.

WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP CANDIDATES' TOURNAMENT HOLLAND 1956

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Baruch H Wood
This round-by round book of the 1956 Candidates' Tournament is a facsimile reprint of a book originally published in 1956 and so is in English descriptive notation (1.P-K4 etc). It features a "view from the ring-side" by Wolfgang Heidenfeld and all 90 games with annotations. Smyslov won the tournament by a point from Keres.
Published 2003, softback, 168 pages. In English descriptive notation.

WORLD CHESS CHAMPIONSHIPS OF 1957 AND 1958

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Harry Golombek
The author was a FIDE judge at both these matches and provides an eye witness account of the proceedings as well as analysis of the games. The first (much larger) part of the book, on the 1957 match, is a reprint of a book which originally appeared in 1957 whilst the section covering the 1958 match is a reprint of a series of articles which appeared in British Chess Magazine in 1958. Stylishly written by Golombek who conveys the drama of the events very clearly.
Published 2002, softback, 216 pages.

TASHKENT 1958

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A J Gillam (Ed)
This was a semi-final of the 26th USSR Championship. The games were published in an edition of eight copies by the Latvian Chess Federation. Unfortunately the only existing copy has a page missing which means that games 33-35 plus the end of game 32 are missing from this book The remaining 116 games are reproduced in this book with the tournament crosstable and 45 diagrams. Holmov won ahead of Geller, Korchnoi, Gufeld, Gipslis, Simagin, Byvshev, Tarasov, Shaposhnikov, Osnos and 6 others.
Published 2009, softback, stapled binding, 36 pages.

ROSTOV-ON-DON 1960

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A J Gillam (Ed)
This booklet includes all 153 games from this 28th USSR Championship Semi Final. There are a few, light annotations, some diagrams and the tournament crosstable. The strong event was won by Boris Spassky and forms part of the "rare and unpublished tournaments" series.
Published 2001, softback, stapled, 41 pages.

TAL - BOTVINNIK 1960

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Mikhail Tal
Tal's classic account of his World Championship win is one of the great books of chess literature. The match itself was one of the most memorable, pitting Tal's tactical ingenuity against Botvinnik's iron logic. All 21 games are brought to life by Tal's annotations which come from an era before today's symbols and hieroglyphs were invented. Also included are the 23 other games that these two played but without annotations.
pub. 2000, softback, 218 pages.

ODESSA 1960

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A J Gillam (Ed)
The games of this tournament were found in a bound notebook, where they had been written in pencil in Latvian, seemingly compiled on behalf of the Latvian Central Chess Club. This book contains all 146 games, 32 diagrams, the tournament crosstable and an article by Vasyukov and Naglis, translated by Igor Stohl. Averbakh won ahead of Bronstein, Stein, Furman, Kotov, Vasyukov, Chistiakov, Shianovsky and 9 others.
Published 2009, softback, stapled binding, 47 pages.

VILNIUS 1960

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Igor Stohl
Vilnius was a semi-final of the 28th USSR Championship won by Gufeld, Simagin and Polugaevsky. An article, written by Mikenas, on the performance of some of the players involved has been translated by Igor Stohl for this book which also includes the crosstable and all 153 games.
Published 2001, softback, stapled, 45 pages.

BOTVINNIK v TAL 1961

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Mikhail Botvinnik
In this 1961 re-match for the World championship Mikhail Botvinnik surprised the chess world by regaining his title from the young champion Mikhail Tal. In contrast to the previous year's match Tal's tactical style was rendered ineffective by Botvinnik's solid, positional play and choice of openings. This book contains all 21 games from the match with annotations by Botvinnik, Sveshnikov, Kotov, Smyslov, Ragozin and Tolush. It also includes Botvinnik's opening analysis for both matches, his thoughts on Tal and the match in general and Botvinnik's post match press conference. An excellent record of a fascinating match.
Published 2004, softback, 126 pages.

LENINGRAD 1961

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A J Gillam (Ed)
This book includes all the games from the tournament which was both the 34th Leningrad Championship and a semi-final of the 29th USSR Championship. The games were taken from one of five copies of a typescript in Latvian. An article by Tolush, translated by Igor Stohl, first appeared in Shakhmaty v SSSR in 1962. Tournament crosstable and 49 diagrams included. Taimanov and Spassky shared first place ahead of Vladimirov, Osnos, Artsukevich, Geller, Shishkin, Furman, Lyavdansky, Tolush, Byvshev and 9 others.
Published 2009, softback, stapled binding, 51 pages.

CURACAO 1962

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Jan Timman
The 1962 Candidates' Tournament in Curacao was one of the most controversial chess events of all time. At the height of the Cold War, eight players contested the right to challenge World Champion Mikhail Botvinnik. The format of the tournament was a gruelling quadruple round-robin. Twenty-eight games were to be played on the tropical island, in a contest that lasted two months.
The air trembled with drama and intrigue. One of the favourites, the brilliant Mikhail Tal, was taken to hospital after 21 rounds and had to withdraw. Three other players from the Soviet Union, Keres, Petrosian, and Geller, were making suspiciously short draws when playing each other. The two American players came to blows over the services of the second they were supposed to share. Bella Korchnoi, whose husband took an early lead in the tournament, was a puppet in the hands of the scheming Rona Petrosian, the wife of the later winner. And one of the favourites was a lanky 19-year-old boy from Brooklyn, Bobby Fischer, who openly accused the Soviets of collusion and was later proven right.
In the end, Tigran Petrosian was the winner and went on to become the new World Champion the following year. But such was the impact of Fischer’s accusations that this was the last time such a battle was organised. Henceforth the challenger to the highest crown was determined in a series of matches. Curacao 1962 was the last Candidates' Tournament.
In Curacao 1962, Jan Timman returns to this clash of giants and takes a fresh look at the games. Timman describes the course of the tournament and annotates the most important games (including 16 of Fischer's!) in his usual lucid and instructive style. A 22 page introduction, complete with photographs, describes the players and the events in which they participated at Curacao and then Timman annotates many of the games in a manner which brings to mind the great tournament books of the past. A beautifully produced and written work.
Published 2005, softback, 216 pages.

BOTVINNIK-PETROSIAN

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Mikhail Botvinnik
The 1963 World Championship match marked the end of Mikhail Botvinnik's fifteen year reign as champion. In a tense, evenly contested, match Botvinnik was eventually defeated by his younger opponent Tigran Petrosian.
This gripping account of the match includes all the games, with annotations by Botvinnik, Petrosian, Akopian, Kasparov and other Soviet Grandmasters. Both players also give their written account of the match. Botvinnik's revealing essay "Why I lost the match" is counterbalanced by Petrosian's analysis of his win, which is also included in this important historical document
In addition the book contains the games of the Botvinnik-Furman training match from early 1963, all other Botvinnik-Petrosian games and analysis from Botvinnik's final notebook. A fascinating and highly instructive report.
Published 2010, softback, 142 pages.

WORLD CHESS CHAMPIONSHIP 1963

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R G Wade
Extensive report on the 1963 Botvinnik vs Petrosian match which includes all the games, with annotations taken from many sources, information on the qualifying series for the match and a look at the players and their careers prior to the meeting. This is a reprint of a book which first appeared in 1963 and so is in English descriptive notation (1.P-K4, N-KB3 etc) br> pub. 2002 (orig 1963), softback, 218 pages.

FISCHER WORLD CHAMPION! (New Edition)

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Max Euwe & Jan Timman
The acclaimed classic 'Fischer World Champion!' conveys the full drama of the 1972 Fischer-Spassky clash, both on and off the board. Finally available in an English edition, it is a blow-by-blow account of the perplexing prelude to the match by the late Max Euwe, the then FIDE President. 'Fischer World Champion!' features the original analyses of the games by Jan Timman.
The match of the Century electrified the world. Chess was front page news everywhere. No one wanted to miss a word, a move or even the slightest detail about the struggle of Bobby Fischer against the terrifying superpower that for decades had exploited its superiority in chess as an irrefutable justification of communism. Bobby was handsome but lonely, brilliant but strange.
The world looked on in anxiety and anticipation as Bobby quarrelled about the venue, the number of games, the prize-fund, the television rights, the cameras, the lighting, the chairs. Read all about it here together with GM Jan Timman's annotations to all 21 match games plus photos from the event. This new edition commemorates the death of Fischer in January 2008 with a tribute by former World Champion Garry Kasparov and an essay by Jan Timman on the life and chess of Bobby Fischer.
Published 2009, softback, 175 pages.

FISCHER WORLD CHAMPION!

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Max Euwe & Jan Timman
The acclaimed classic 'Fischer World Champion!' conveys the full drama of the 1972 Fischer-Spassky clash, both on and off the board. Finally available in an English edition, it is a blow-by-blow account of the perplexing prelude to the match by the late Max Euwe, the then FIDE President. 'Fischer World Champion!' features the original analyses of the games by Jan Timman.
The match of the Century electrified the world. Chess was front page news everywhere. No one wanted to miss a word, a move or even the slightest detail about the struggle of Bobby Fischer against the terrifying superpower that for decades had exploited its superiority in chess as an irrefutable justification of communism. Bobby was handsome but lonely, brilliant but strange.
The world looked on in anxiety and anticipation as Bobby quarrelled about the venue, the number of games, the prize-fund, the television rights, the cameras, the lighting, the chairs. Read all about it here together with GM Jan Timman's annotations to all 21 match games plus photos from the event.
Published 2002, softback, 159 pages.

GARRY KASPAROV ON MODERN CHESS: KASPAROV VS KARPOV 1988-2009

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Garry Kasparov
Between 1984 and 1990 Garry Kasparov and Anatoly Karpov contested five long matches for the World Championship. This fourth volume of the series "Garry Kasparov on Modern Chess" concentrates on all the games played between the two from 1988 to the present day and features their fifth World Championship match played in New York and Lyons 1990.
As usual Kasparov combines in-depth analysis of the games with commentary on the politics and personalities of the time.
The period after 1990 was also a fascinating one in the chess world as it witnessed the emergence of a new generation of young grandmasters capable of challenging the supremacy of the "two Ks". Between them these two greats had dominated the chess landscape for the previous two decades and it has seemed unthinkable that a major tournament could be won by a different player. Now, however, grandmasters such as Viswanathan Anand, Vassily Ivanchuk, Nigel Short, Boris Gelfand, Vladimir Kramnik and Veselin Topalov arrived on the scene and proved themselves capable of competing successfully at the very highest levels.
This period also witnessed an increasing disatisfaction amongst the world elite with the traditional ruling body, FIDE (the World Chess Federation). This led to attempts by the leading grandmasters to organise the World Championship cycle outside of FIDE’s jurisdiction. In the late 1980s the Grandmasters Assocation (GMA) was created and was responsible for the organisation of the World Cup - a tournament championship of the world's leading chess players. Another organisation, the Professional Chessplayers Association (PCA) followed in 1993.
In this volume Garry Kasparov (world champion between 1985 and 2000 and generally regarded as the greatest player ever) analyses in depth all the games and matches he played against his great rival Anatoly Karpov from 1988 to the present day. Kasparov was personally involved in the creation of both the GMA and PCA and gives a fascinating insight into this important time in chess history.
Published 2010, hardback, 432 pages.
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84th BRITISH CHESS CHAMPIONSHIPS 1997

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The official bulletin

85th BRITISH CHESS CHAMPIONSHIPS 1998

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Richard O'Brien (Ed)
The official bulletin.
278 games with round pairings and crosstable. Results from other sections included.
50 pages, stapled binding, A4 format.

HASTINGS INTERNATIONAL CHESS CONGRESS 1998-99

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Richard O'Brien (Ed)
The official bulletin. All 45 games from the Premier + 109 games from the challengers and results from other events at the congress.
40 pages, stapled binding A4 format

SUPER TOURNAMENTS 2002

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Sergei Soloviev (Ed)
This book of outstanding quality and value contains 224 extensively annotated games from the top tournaments of 2002 with text commentary and analysis by GMs Khalifman, Goloshchapov, Golubev, Sakaev and Shipov plus IM Notkin. It features in depth coverage of Corus Wijk aan Zee, Linares, NAO Chess Masters, Dortmund and the final of the FIDE World Championships with crosstables, player interviews, annotated games and 16 pages of colour photos. The world's top players feature heavily with several games each from Kasparov, Ponomariov, Anand, Khalifman and Karpov.
Published 2003, softback, 556 pages.

SUPER TOURNAMENTS 2003

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Sergei Soloviev (Ed)
Super Tournaments 2003 provides in depth commentary and grandmaster analysis on all 176 games from the year's four Super GM Tournaments at Linares, Corus (Wijk-aan-Zee), Dortmund and Hoogeveen. The players include Anand, Kasparov, Kramnik, Ponomariov and Leko and the annotators are GMs Khalifman, Beim, Bezgodov, Ivanov, Golubev, Shipov and Yevseev together with IM Maxim Notkin and Nikolai Vlassov. Their comments take the form of explanatory text as well as the analysis of variations so the reader can follow the players' strategy as well as the underlying tactics. Each tournament report begins with an interview with the winner as well as the tournament crosstable and the publisher has included 16 pages of colour photos of the players making this a very collectable record of four of the strongest chess tournaments ever held. Includes indexes of players and openings.
Published 2004, softback, 454 pages.

WORLD CHESS CHAMPIONSHIP 2004: KRAMNIK VS LEKO

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Martin Breutigam
A nicely produced book on the 2004 Centro Dannemann match with annotations to all the games by Artur Yusupov and Christopher Lutz. The first part of the book details the previous 13 World Champions with a brief biography and a couple of games from each player. The book is produced on high quality paper with photographs throughout.
Published 2004, softback, 170 pages.

SAN LUIS 2005

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Alik Gershon & Igor Nor
This book of the official FIDE World Championship of 2005 does justice to an extremely strong event. Printed on gloss paper throughout, with plenty of colour photos of the event and scenery and all the games annotated by the authors, this is a tournament book of equal quality to the great tournament books of the past. The event was won by Veselin Topalov in convincing fashion, provoking unfounded accusations of "computer assistance", which subsequent performances have refuted. Authors, Israeli GM Alik Gershon and trainer Igor Nor analyse all the games from the tournament and explain the ideas behind the moves. Contents: Introduction; Round 1; Round 2; Round 3; Round 4; Round 5; Round 6; Round 7; Half Way Report; Round 8; Round 9; Round 10; Round 11; Round 12; Round 13; Round 14; Tournament table of Second half; Afterword; Full Tournament Tables; Postscript; Index.
Published 2007, softback, 442 pages.

TOPALOV-KRAMNIK 2006 WORLD CHESS CHAMPIONSHIP

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Veselin Topalov & Zhivko Ginchev
It is unusual to find a book on a World Championship match written by the loser. Nevertheless here are Veselin Topalov's thoughts on the 2006 Championship match, held in Elista, which resulted in victory for his opponent Vladimir Kramnik. Topalov begins with his own view of the history of the World Chess Championship, Kasparov, FIDE, Kirsan and Kramnik before moving onto the 2006 match. Here, in addition to annotating the games and providing background material, he gives his take on "toiletgate" and includes post game interviews and photos from the match. This is a well written and presented book in which Topalov expresses his opinions very clearly.
Published 2007, softback, 220 pages.

VISHY'S VICTORY

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Raymond Keene
The match between Kramnik and Topalov in 2006 finally reunified the World Chess championship after Kasparov and short's breakaway from FIDE for their 1993 match. The agreed next step in the world championship reunification process was a match-tournament, to give other leading contenders a chance, before the title reverts to a match format in 2008. For this book of the Mexico City 2007 World Championship tournament, Julian Simpole was the eye-witness at the event, recording the player's comments and reactions after each game. Annotations to the games have been provided by experienced chess author Steve Giddins whilst other commentary and a brief history of the World Chess Championship has been added by Grandmaster Ray Keene. The super-strong, eight player tournament ended in victory for Indian Grandmaster Vishy Anand who was crowned World Champion.
Published 2007, softback, 212 pages.

REGGIO EMILIA 2007/08

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Mihail Marin & Yuri Garrett
This book celebrates fifty years of the famous Italian tournament. In a round-by-round coverage of the 2007-08 event, all the games are analysed, many of them by the players themselves. Those sharing their wisdom include award-winning author Mihail Marin, rising star Ni Hua, tournament winner Zoltan Almasi and the legendary Viktor Korchnoi. In addition, photographs and entertaining stories take the reader behind the scenes at a top-class tournament. Includes tournament tables for all 50 Reggio Emilia tournaments.
Features:
•Insights from famous grandmasters
•An elegant and enlightening tournament book
•Beautiful black & white photography
Mihail Marin is a grandmaster from Romania. His previous books for Quality Chess have established him as one of the world's finest chess authors. Yuri Garrett is an Italian publisher and tournament organizer.
Published 2009, softback, 288 pages.

GREATEST TOURNAMENTS 2001-2009

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Aleksandar Matanovic (Ed)
The Greatest Tournaments 2001-2009 presents a selection of games from eighty-six of the strongest tournaments played during the last decade, selected by following criteria:
* they were round-robin tournaments
* a normal time-control was used
* there was a minimum number of six participants
* it was Category 17 (or higher)
The tournaments are presented in chronological order. Along with a crosstable of the event, each tournament is represented by
* the best game of the tournament winner
* the best game played at the tournament
* the game with the most important theoretical novelty
There is also a selection of game fragments, the most beautiful combinations and endings. The games have languageless, Informator-style annotations and diagrams at key moments.
There are three statistical tables given at the end of the book. The first has tournament category statistics, the second table contains the tournament winner statistics and the third table provides statistics on all the tournament participants.
During the period 2001-2004, only twenty Category 17 (or higher) tournaments were organized. In the following four-year period, 2005-2008, there were forty-nine of them. An increase of almost 150%. The most fruitful year was 2009, with seventeen tournaments of the highest category.
Published 2010, softback, 519 pages.

ANAND-TOPALOV SOFIA 2010

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Daniel Lovas
The 2010 World Championship restored some credibility to a previously tarnished crown with various players having claims to matches for the title. In Sofia the defending champion met the most outstanding challenger in an intriguing clash of styles.
This book presents all twelve match games, with annotations, as well as a look at the careers of both Anand and Topalov and a selection of their best games, to provide an entertaining and thorough account of a hard fought battle.
Published 2010, softback, 116 pages.