ISBN: Ostalo
Godina izdanja: 1972
Jezik: Engleski
Oblast: Šah
Autor: Strani

Richard Roberts - Fischer-Spassky: The New York Times Report on the Chess Match of the Century
Bantam, 1972
218 str.
meki povez
stanje: vrlo dobro
Richard Roberts With Harold C. Schonberg, Al Horowitz And Samuel Reshevsky

With diagrams, tables an appendixes. Duodecimo (7` x 4`) bound in original publisher`s pictorial wrappers. First edition. This book discusses the background to the match (including discussion over the chessboard itself) to the games themselves. Two appendices are includes--one the standard rules for a world championship match and special rules created for Spassky versus Fischer. The World Chess Championship 1972 was a match for the World Chess Championship between challenger Bobby Fischer of the United States and defending champion Boris Spassky of the Soviet Union. The match took place in the Laugardalshöll arena in Reykjavík, Iceland, and has been dubbed the Match of the Century. Fischer became the first American born in the United States to win the world title, and the second American overall (Wilhelm Steinitz, the first world champion, became a naturalized American citizen in 1888). Fischer`s win also ended, for a short time, 24 years of Soviet domination of the World Championship. The first game was played on July 11, 1972. The last game (the 21st) began on August 31, was adjourned after 40 moves, and Spassky resigned the next day without resuming play. Fischer won the match 12½ 8½, becoming the eleventh undisputed world champion.

This is THE NEW YORK TIMES report on the Chess Match of the Century.

Part One makes this a most interesting book. Its chapters
are entitled How the Masters Compete, Fischer Fever, A War
of Nerves, Personalities, and The Confrontation. Part Two
contains every game of the match, with brief comments. Part
Three discusses The Wind-Up and The Transformed Future of Chess?

The book was largely compiled from stories in THE NEW YORK TIMES by Harold C. Schonberg, Al Horowitz, and Samuel Reshevsky. Although it contains a few inaccuracies. it gives an engrossing picture of the final clash and much of what went before.


Nonfiction, Sport, Chess, Fišer, Spaski, Šah