The Best of Chess Life and Review: 1933-1960 (Fireside Chess Library)

By Bruce Pandolfini

Book Overview

From America's foremost chess coach and game strategist for Netflix's The Queen's Gambit comes a treasure trove of chess history, instruction, and dazzling entertainment from the very best chess minds of the century.

For more than half a century, The Chess Review and Chess Life magazines instructed players of all levels with premium-quality chess writing. Every month priceless coverage of history-making chess tournaments, the cream of instructional writing, incisive interviews with world champions, contributions from prestigious fans from Albert Einstein to Carmen Miranda, and chess tales, cartoons and humor have enriched its connoisseur's treasure chest of instruction and entertainment.

Covering the years 1933 to 1960, volume one includes:
*Writing by Irving Chernevm Fred Reinfeld, and other great chess writers
*Rare full coverage of the 1938 AVRO tournament
*Analysis of world championship matches by the players themselves
*The debut of 13-year-old Bobby Fischer
*And much more

With black-and-white drawings, diagrams, and photographs throughout, this is a one-of-a-kind collection no chess player should be without.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0671619861
• ISBN13: 9780671619862
• Release Date: July 1988
• Publisher: Touchstone Books
• Length: 624 Pages
• Weight: 1.86 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"