Tal's Hundred Best Games: Masterpieces by the Latvian Genius 1961-1973 (Hardinge Simpole chess classics)

The essential sequel to Peter Clarkes companion book on Tal Mikhail Tals Best Games of Chess. Cafferty takes us further on Tals career path covering his loss to Botvinnik in the revenge match but also the triumphs of Bled 1961 and Tals remarkable sequence of tournament victories in 1973. Tal is the chess publics favourite - a knight of the chessboard who knew no fear and joyously sacrificed to fight at close quarters with the enemy king. In the annals of chess Tal ranks with Anderssen Alekhine Stein and Kasparov as the undisputed archetypes of aggression on the 64 squares