Chess Panorama An Introduction into the Hallowed Halls of the Chess Masters - Softcover

Lombardy, William; Daniels, David

9784871879729: Chess Panorama An Introduction into the Hallowed Halls of the Chess Masters

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ISBN 10: 4871879720 ISBN 13: 9784871879729

Publisher: Ishi Press, 2018

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This is a book of chess games and stories about the greatest players of the game. This is what top-level competitive chess is really like. A Yugoslav grandmaster, befuddled at a simultaneous blindfold exhibition , flees from a crowd of peasants through a bathroom window …. A convicted murderer escapes from the police while being taken to a chess tournament … The wife of Grandmaster Reshevsky causes pandemonium when she insists on injecting herself into a game with Grandmaster Byrne … Here are the colorful personalities, the scandals and the great blunders of the champions that make up the chess panorama. Light in tone sometimes humorous and always entertaining these stories illustrated with game diagrams offer a marvelous introduction to the world of chess. Delightful , kibbitzing and chock full of marvelous encounters, this book by insiders will entertain and instruct simple wood pushers and masters alike.

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About the Author

Almost every website says that Lombardy was Bobby Fischer's second in the 1972 World Championship Match for the World Chess Championship. This was technically not true. In one of the last conversations before he died, Lombardy revealed that Fischer had never hired Lombardy to be his second. There was no written or even verbal agreement between them for Lombardy to be Fischer's second. What really happened is Lombardy just hung around with Fischer and helped him with mostly end game analysis. Lombardy arrived in Reykjavik before Bobby got there. Since Lombardy was always around Fischer, it was just assumed that Lombardy was Fischer's second. However, I was at the match and I was a friend of Fischer and Lombardy and I personally heard Fischer say, “Lombardy is my chess boy.” When I later told this to Lombardy, he replied, “I am not his chess boy any longer. The match is over.”

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