By David N. L. Levy, Bill Hartston, Kevin J. O'Connell

Viktor Lvovich Korchnoi, one of many world's major chess gamers and 5 occasions candidate for the area Championship, defected from the Soviet Union in 1976 on the age of forty-five and now lives in Switzerland. Describing Korchnoi in his advent to this ebook, foreign grasp invoice Hartston writes: '... Korchnoi is exclusive. whilst he sits all the way down to a video game, he brings to undergo a mix of focus, selection, and effort which no different grandmaster can match.' Korchnoi's variety of play is of enormous curiosity to spectators and chess fans due to his nice combating spirit and his common battles opposed to the chess clock. Korchnoi's Chess video games contains nearly 1700 video games performed as much as the start of 1978 and is the main entire and systematic choice of this nice player's video games ever to be released. The editors have integrated each on hand event and fit video game performed by way of Korchnoi considering 1945, and there are many miscellaneous video games from blitz tournaments and simultaneous exhibitions. apart from the advent, that's reproduced in a few significant languages, the whole paintings is languageless. The video games are given in figurine algebraic notation of the shape authorized by means of the foreign Chess Federation, with the world over accredited symbols getting used for annotation. The annotations themselves are by way of a bunch of overseas Grandmasters and Masters. Korchnoi's Chess video games should still take its rightful position at the bookshelves of each chess fan. With this type of wealth of hugely unique video games, this booklet will supply virtually limitless leisure and guideline for chess avid gamers of any power.