Match of the Century Revisited

The World Championship match between Fischer and Spassky in Reykjavik 1972 was played at the height of the Cold War. The image of a lone American genius defeating the Soviet machine captivated a worldwide audience unlike anything else in chess history. Exactly fifty years later, Fischer – Spassky 1972 takes a fresh look at both the chess and the human aspects of this monumental match.

The Inside Story of the Legendary 1972 WCC

When the Icelandic Chess Federation made a bid to host the 1972 world title match between Soviet icon Boris Spassky and American challenger Bobby Fischer, many Icelanders were rightly shaking their heads in disbelief. How could their small island country in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean with a population of less than 300 thousand people stage such a prestigious event in the first place?

Chess Archive : Bogoljubov: Denazification Updated by Prof. Bernd-Peter Lange

Chess Biographies : The Early Chess Career of F. D. Yates (Part Five: Summer 1910) by Vlastimil Fiala

Forgotten Chess Tournaments : Tournament Research 1923-24 by Tony Gillam

Classical Chess Matches : H. Staunton vs. D. Harrwitz Duels (1846 and 1853) by Vlastimil Fiala

Jan Nepomnjaschtschi gegen Magnus Carlsen

Immer wenn sich der Weltmeister im Schach einem Herausforderer zum Kampf um die Krone stellen muss, schaut über den Kreis der Anhänger des königlichen Spiels hinaus die ganze Welt auf dieses Ereignis. So sollte es auch im Dezember 2020 sein, als der Russe Jan Nepomnjaschtschi in Dubai auf den norwegischen Titelinhaber Magnus Carlsen treffen sollte. Die Covid-19-Pandemie setze die Veranstaltung jedoch patt, sie musste in den Herbst 2021 verschoben werden. Ab dem 24. November 2021 wurde das auf 14 reguläre Wettkampfpartien angesetzte Duell dann endlich gestartet.

Masterpieces and Dramas 1938-1947

The second part of Sergey Voronkov’s three-volume treatise continues from where Volume I left off. It covers the eleventh to fifteenth Soviet championships, the 1941 match tournament for the title of Soviet Absolute Champion, and the main events in the country’s chess history between these tournaments. Themes include the downfall of Nikolai Krylenko, the persecution and disappearance of Soviet chess players during the purges, and the experience of chess players in World War Two. The atmosphere of the time is captured in contemporary accounts and memoirs of key players and cultural figures.

Aus der Reihe »Quarterly for Chess History«

005 Chess Archives

Tournament Research, 1919-1922 (Anthony Gillam)

179 Chess Biographies

The Short Career of Wilhelm Hanstein (1811-1850) (Vlastimil Fiala)

217 Forgotten Chess Tournaments

Chess in Displaced Person Camps after World War Two and th Aus der Reihe »Quarterly for Chess History«

In 1971 Robert James Fischer defeated Mark Taimanov by the sensational score of 6– 0 in Vancouver, but the match games were far more competitive and tension-filled than the final score would suggest. Twenty years later Taimanov put pen to paper, reflecting on the experience. Exactly 50 years after the match, this is the first English translation of Taimanov’s original Russian text

Candidates Tournament 2020 Yekaterinburg - Vol. 1

The balanced flow of the normal chess calendar was unexpectedly interrupted by a frightening occurrence. Seemingly harmless at first, the coronavirus pandemic overtook more and newer countries by the day and gradually became pretty much the main, and only determining factor in life.

Aus der Reihe »Quarterly for Chess History«

005 Editor's Note

007 Chess Archives

007 Swedish chess in the shadow of the Swastika (Henrik Lindberg)

026 Chess Biographies

026 Mikhail Chigorin (Vlastimil Fiala)

The Meeting of the British Chess Association

Complete tournament book won by Ignaz von Kolisch, ahead of Charles Stanley. The book contains 29 games in total, of which 17 are all the games of the tournament, 6 games are from the exhibition match Staunton - Worrall and the rest are various exhibition games. Some games are annotated from contemporary sources (Staunton, Loewenthal). The book includes the tournament history, rules, official report, 25 problems from the problem tournament - all diagrammed with solutions etc. Indexes of players and openings.

80 Seiten, englisch, kartoniert, 1. Auflage 2019

Focusing on the recovery of chess in Spain and Europe after World War II, this book traces the development of the International Chess Tournaments in Gijón from 1944 to 1965. The authors cover the decline of world champion Alekhine and the rise of the child prodigy Arturo Pomar, along with the great chess of Euwe, Rossolimo, Prins, Medina, Larsen and others.

I assume that most of you have read (and enjoyed!) the first volume of this series, but for those who haven’t: don’t worry. The level of the content of the two books is identical and you can work through the second volume without having studied the first one. However, it’s still not too late to get a copy of the first volume! In the first six chapters I will mainly look at positions with limited material left on the board.

Caruana gegen Carlsen

Das Duell um die Krone des weltbesten Spielers stellt seit Beginn des Turnierspiels stets den absoluten Höhepunkt im internationalen Schachgeschehen dar. Am 9. November dieses Jahres beginnt in London der Weltmeisterschaftskampf zwischen dem amtierenden Weltmeister Magnus Carlsen aus Norwegen und seinem Herausforderer Fabiano Caruana aus den USA. In einem Match über 12 Partien und nötigenfalls einem Stichkampf wird der Weltmeister ermittelt.

Erinnerungen von Robert Hübner