About the Author

Mikhail Tal was one of the greatest tactical geniuses ever to play the royal game. A Latvian by birth, he rocketed to the top of the chess world in the late 1950s and wrested the title from the patriarch of Soviet chess, Mikhail Botvinnik in a spectacular title match.

Reviews

"Tal was the finest writer to become world champion." -- Andy Soltis, International Grandmaster and chess columnist