Garry Kasparov returns with the third installment of his acclaimed My Great Predecessors series, one of the most authoritative explorations into chess ever written.
My Great Predecessors: Part 3 charts the development of modern theory through two chess kings: Tigran Petrosian and Boris Spassky. It is now available exclusively as an interactively trainable course on Chessable.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.
Petrosian & Spassky examined + their opponents
The chessboard is the ultimate mental battleground and the world champions themselves are supreme intellectual gladiators.
Awaiting you is a wonderful collection of masterpieces, created by the best chessplayers in the world and studied under the microscope of the latest analytical computer programs; hence - a great number of amazing finds and discoveries.
I hope that this work will make it possible to see the colossal evolution of chess during the past one hundred and fifty years, which is fully comparable with scientific and technological progress.
- Garry Kasparov, in the Introduction
These magnificent compilations of chess form the basis of the first three parts of Kasparov's
definitive history of the World Chess Championship.
Kasparov, who is acclaimed as the greatest chessplayer ever, subjects the play of his predecessors to a rigorous analysis.
Part three features the play of champions
Tigran Petrosian (1963-1969) and Boris Spassky (1969-1972), as well as their outstanding opponents -
Gligoric, Polugayevsky, Portisch and Stein.
Be the protagonist in chess history's greatest stories!
This unique Chessable edition adds a total of 432 trainable examples plucked from Kasparov's incisive commentary so you can ground your chess education by not just enjoying this timeless classic, but actively learning from it too.
Garry Kasparov was the thirteenth World Champion, holding the title between 1985 and 2000.
His tournament record is second to none, featuring numerous wins in the world's major events, often by substantial margins.
As well as his outstanding successes, Kasparov has constantly promoted the game; he has done more than anyone to popularize chess in modern times.
Also check out:My Great Predecessors: Part 1My Great Predecessors: Part 2
