Károlyi/Renette: Korchnoi Year by Year: Volume I 1945-1968 (paperback) mix holz Speelman's entertaining selection of game

Speelman's entertaining selection of game fragments and compositions ranges from simple tactical topics to chess magic

AFEK – AN UZBEK VICTORY IN PRAGUE

Which transitions to the endgame are particularly unpleasant for Black against the Open Variation

become a plaything of Russian interests

And how often did you miss your chance to execute the winning tactics

Károlyi/Renette: Korchnoi Year by Year: Volume I 1945-1968 (paperback) mix holz Speelman's entertaining selection of gameViktor Korchnoi (1931 to 2016) was a giant of the chess world with a career embracing seventy years and over 5,000 recorded games. He contested two world championship matches against Anatoly Karpov, coming within a whisker of being crowned World Champion in 1978. He was a world championship candidate, Soviet champion and Olympiad medal winner on numerous occasions. In this first of four volumes on Viktor Korchnois chess career, FIDE Master Hans