Description:
145 pages with frontispiece plate, diagrams and plates. Octavo (8" x 5 3/4") bound in original publisher's quarter brown cloth over pictorial boards. Translated by Robert Ejuri. First edition in English.Mikhail Nekhemyevich Tal (1936-1992) was a Soviet-Latvian chess player and the eighth World Chess Champion. He is considered a creative genius and is widely regarded as one of the most influential chess players. Tal played in an attacking and daring combinatorial style. His play was known above all for improvisation and unpredictability. Vladislav Zubok said of him, "Every game for him was as inimitable and invaluable as a poem".
Condition: Previous owner's sticker to front paste down. Corners bumped and rubbed else very good.
