Match for the World Championship
Seventh Edition

by Mikhail Tal
Foreword by Karsten Mueller
192pp., Softcover
SRP $19.95

The Seventh Edition of Tal’s Classic Work

In 1960 Mikhail Botvinnik was the pillar of “scientific” chess and the iron-willed champion of the world. The young attacking genius Mikhail Tal, the “Wizard of Riga,” put the magic back into the game by defeating Botvinnik with spectacular tactics in one of the most dramatic and celebrated world championship matches of all time.

This is Tal’s own classic work on the contest. In it he sets the stage and explains every one of the 21 games, telling both the on- and off-the-board story of this titanic clash of styles and thought.

Tal’s effort is supplemented by German grandmaster Karsten Müller’s Foreword and a moving essay by former USCF Executive Director Al Lawrence. Find out why this book is widely regarded as one of the best chess books every written.

“Mikhail Tal’s splendid account of his world championship match victory is one of the masterpieces of the golden age of annotation – before insights and feelings and flashes of genius were reduced to mere moves and Informant symbols. This is simply the best book written about a world championship match by a contestant. That shouldn’t be a surprise because Tal was the finest writer to become world champion.” – From the Foreword by International Grandmaster Andy Soltis

Stjepan Tomić (chessreads.com)
“I must have read Tal-Botvinnik over ten times. It’s my personal chess book equivalent of The Lord Of The Rings - my favorite chess book which I could read on repeat. Most chess players, authors, and historians will agree that it’s among the best, if not the best coverage of a match or tournament ever written. Annotated in incredible detail and written by Mikhail Tal himself, the book is an invaluable learning resource, an important historical overview of the transition to the modern era of chess, and a glimpse into the mind of an attacking genius.”
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