На шахматном Олимпе (On the Chess Olympus)

47 pages with photograph and diagrams. Octavo (8 1/2" x 5 1/2") bound in original publisher's pictorial stapled wrappers. Signed by Mikhail Tal from the library of Lothar Schmid. (Sakharov 562) First edition. The book captures the dramatic conclusion of the 1961 World Chess Championship Rematch in Moscow. : The rematch took place between the 24-year-old reigning champion Mikhail Tal and the 49-year-old former champion Mikhail Botvinnik. : Released as part of a series of educational youth and sports lectures, it served to immediately analyze the games, training methods, and psychological battle of the historic 1961 match for Soviet chess fans. Mikhail Tal[b] (1936-1992) was a Soviet Latvian chess grandmaster and the eighth World Chess Champion. He is considered a creative genius and is widely regarded as one of the most influential players in chess history. Tal played in an attacking and combinatorial style. His play was known for improvisation and unpredictability. Vladislav Zubok said of him, "Every game for him was as inimitable and invaluable as a poem" Lothar Maximilian Lorenz Schmid (10 May 1928 - 18 May 2013) was a German chess grandmaster. He was born in Radebeul near Dresden into a family who were the co-owners of the Karl May Press, which published the German Karl May adventure novels. He was best known as the chief arbiter at several World Chess Championship matches, in particular the 1972 encounter between Bobby Fischer and Boris Spassky at Reykjavic. He was also an avid collector of chess books and paraphernalia. It was reputed that he owned the largest known private chess library in the world, as well as a renowned collection of chess art, chess boards and chess pieces from around the globe. Condition: Autograph signature of former World Champion Mikhail Tal on the title page. Lothar Schmid's book plate to front wrapper verso. Some toning to pages else very good. File C.…