Chess Is My Life including CD-ROM (signed + signed scoresheet)

Korchnoi, Victor

ISBN 10: 3283004064 / ISBN 13: 9783283004064

Published by Olms, Zurich, 2005

About this Item

Hb, laminated pictorial covers, 226pp, b/w photos. Signed and dated by Korchnoi on fep. In addition there is a scoresheet for a game played by previous owner in a Korchnoi simul, also signed by Korchnoi. VG(-), tiny bump to back corner, contents clean other than author's signature. Updated, expanded edition of Korchnoi's autobiography which brings events up to 2002 and includes 9 annotated games as well as photos. The CD-ROM has his complete games in Chessbase format.

Seller Inventory # 066448

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Chess Is My Life including CD-ROM (signed + signed scoresheet)
• Publisher: Olms, Zurich
• Publication Date: 2005
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 3283004064
• ISBN 13: 9783283004064
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: Very Good
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)
• Seller catalogs:
  • Chess - Signed
  • Chess - Games
  • Chess - All

About this title

Synopsis

Victor Korchnoi is one of the greatest figures in chess history, which he has helped to shape for nearly 50 years now. Now, at the beginning of the 21st century, the aggressive style of the now over 70-year-old is undiminished and as awe-inspiring as ever. At tournaments with numerous entrants, the naturalized Swiss citizen leaves world-class players young enough to be his grandchildren far behind him.

It is high time, therefore, to update Viktor Kortshnoi’s autobiography Chess is my life, which met with great interest on its publication more than 20 years ago. In long interviews, Victor Korchnoi has completely retold his life story. The memories of his childhood in the besieged Leningrad, his time as a student of the university of his home town (now Saint Petersburg), his rise to the top of the major chess power USSR and the years before and after his defection to the West in 1976 are also of significance as contemporary documents of a life spent in the former Soviet Union. The volume also includes many photographs as well as a number of games with comments in typical Korchnoi-style and which are of decisive importance for his brilliant chess career.