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The battle for the World Chess Championship has witnessed numerous titanic struggles that have engaged the interest not only of chess enthusiasts but of the public at large. The chessboard is the ultimate mental battleground and the world champions themselves are supreme intellectual... read more

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First Sentence

In Volume 1 of My Great Predecessors I talked about the chess kings of the distant past, about the first four official world champions - Steinitz, Lasker, Capablanca and Alekhine and their outstanding opponents.

Series

This is book 2 in the My Great Predecessors series.

Authors & Contributors

  1. Garry Kasparov (Author)
 

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