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Sebastian Ritscher |
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THE INNER GAME
THE INNER GAME is an intimate and gripping insider's account of this unique sporting contest. It reveals the secrets of chess at the highest level, from dirty tricks behind the scenes to bugged conversations, stolen tapes and sexual intrigue, and opens up the strange inner world of the Chess Grandmasters, men of a narrow but all-consuming passion.
The 1993 World Chess Championship was one of the most eagerly anticipated clashes in the game's rich history.
On one side was Garri Kasparov, the greatest in a long line of Russian World Champions and a player whose remorseless aggression both in play and in person seemed to terrify his opponents. Across the board was Nigel Short, a bespectacled, guitar-playing 28-year-old Lancastrian who had earned his place in the contest over a gruelling three-year qualification campaign.
Their epic duel of the intellect was fought out in the full glare of the world's media and the intricacies of the battle captivated observers around the world chess experts and novices alike. THE INNER GAME is an intimate and gripping insider's account of this unique sporting contest. It reveals the secrets of chess at the highest level, from dirty tricks behind the scenes to bugged conversations, stolen tapes and sexual intrigue, and opens up the strange inner world of the Chess Grandmasters, men of a narrow but all-consuming passion.
The author, Dominic Lawson, is best known as a former newspaper editor and now weekly leader page columnist for the Sunday Times and Daily Mail. But chess is his passion, as he demonstrated with several series as the presenter of 'Across the Board' for BBC Radio 4, in which he simultaneously interviewed and played against such giants of the game as Magnus Carlsen (the current World Chess Champion), Kasparov and the world's strongest woman player, Hou Yifan. Since 2014 he has been the elected President of the English Chess Federation.
On one side was Garri Kasparov, the greatest in a long line of Russian World Champions and a player whose remorseless aggression both in play and in person seemed to terrify his opponents. Across the board was Nigel Short, a bespectacled, guitar-playing 28-year-old Lancastrian who had earned his place in the contest over a gruelling three-year qualification campaign.
Their epic duel of the intellect was fought out in the full glare of the world's media and the intricacies of the battle captivated observers around the world chess experts and novices alike. THE INNER GAME is an intimate and gripping insider's account of this unique sporting contest. It reveals the secrets of chess at the highest level, from dirty tricks behind the scenes to bugged conversations, stolen tapes and sexual intrigue, and opens up the strange inner world of the Chess Grandmasters, men of a narrow but all-consuming passion.
The author, Dominic Lawson, is best known as a former newspaper editor and now weekly leader page columnist for the Sunday Times and Daily Mail. But chess is his passion, as he demonstrated with several series as the presenter of 'Across the Board' for BBC Radio 4, in which he simultaneously interviewed and played against such giants of the game as Magnus Carlsen (the current World Chess Champion), Kasparov and the world's strongest woman player, Hou Yifan. Since 2014 he has been the elected President of the English Chess Federation.
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Published 2021-11-18 by Silvertail Books |