Karolyi: Boris Spasskys Best Games 1 - The Rising Star (hardcover) Bestseller Demonstrates how to build pressure

Demonstrates how to build pressure without offering unnecessary counter-chances to the opponent

Black simply gives away a centre pawn

the English Opening was a logical extension to 1

Every chess fan marvels at the wonderful combinations with which famous masters win their games

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Karolyi: Boris Spasskys Best Games 1 - The Rising Star (hardcover) Bestseller Demonstrates how to build pressureBoris Spassky is the most underappreciated World Champion in chess history, remembered as the Soviet who lost to Bobby Fischer in 1972. In this two volume work, biographer extraordinaire Tibor Karolyi puts the focus on Spassky's brilliant career and life story. Born in 1937, Spassky barely escaped with his life when evacuating from the Siege of Leningrad as a young boy. This book tells the story of how that boy subsequently learned to play chess and