From Morphy to Fischer - Al Horowitz

A History of the World Chess Championship. Batsford, 1973. 291pp, no inscriptions. Good, clean, tight copy. DJ has been price clipped, with batsford price sticker on front inside flap of dj. Top edge of pages has been coloured grey. A couple of foxing spots to edge of pages. Outer layer of dj peeling slightly to left of bottom edge of back. Otherwise extremely good condition. In his history of the championship Al Horowitz invites the reader to attend 68 great chess matches. With a satisfactory balance of anecdote and annotation he recreates the outstanding games and contrasts the personalities of the champions. His survey of the entire chess scene ranges from the development of the International system and the role of championship chess in the Soviet Union to the meteoric rise of Bobby Fischer. Fascinating, authoritative and instructive, this is a book that the chess enthusiast will read and reread with pleasure and profit.