Spassky's 100 Best Games of Chess

Author: Cafferty, Bernhard (1934- ) Boris Vasilievich Spassky (1937- ) signed cardYear: 1972Publisher: The MacMillan CompanyPlace: New YorkCondition:255 pages with diagrams and indices. Octavo (8 1/2" x 6") bound in original publisher's blue-green cloth with gilt lettering to spine in original jacket. Foreword ;by Leonard Barden. Signed card with small picture of Spassky laid in. (Lusis: 1353.1) Second printing.In 1969, Boris Spassky, the Russian grandmaster, defeated Tigran Petrosian to become the World Champion, thus avenging his narrow defeat three years earlier. Like his 1972 challenger Bobby Fischer, Spassky is a superb attacking player, one of the outstanding grandmasters of the century. Spassky's twenty-year fight to the top is magnificently recorded in this fully annotated collection of his 100 best games. Beginning with his victory in the 1949 Leningrad Junior Championship at the age of eleven, Spassky's chess-playing career is divided by Bernard Cafferty into five main period