Gary Kasparov On My Great Predecessors: Pt. 1 By Garry Kasparov
(Hardback, 2003)

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The battle for the World Chess Championship has witnessed numerous titanic struggles which have engaged the interest not only of chess enthusiasts but also of the public at large The chessboard is the ultimate mental battleground & the world champions themselves are supreme intellectual gladiators These magnificent compilations of chess form the basis of the first two parts of Garry Kasparov's definitive history of the World Chess Championship Garry Kasparov who is universally acclaimed as the greatest chessplayer ever subjects the play of his predecessors to a rigorous analysis Part one features the play of champions Wilhelm Steinitz (1886-1894) Emanuel Lasker (1894-1921) Jose Capablanca (1921-1927) & Alexander Alekhine (1927-1935 & 1937-1946) Part two features the play of champions Max Euwe (1935-1937) Mikhail Botvinnik (1946-1957 1958-1961 & 1961-1963) Vassily Smyslov (1957-1958) & Mikhail Tal (1960-1961) These books are more than just a compilation of the games of these champions Kasparov's biographies place them in a fascinating historical political & cultural context Kasparov explains how each champion brought his own distinctive style to the chessboard & enriched the theory of the game with new ideas All these games have been thoroughly reassessed with the aid of modern software technology & the new light this sheds on these classic masterpieces is fascinating