The fight for the World Chess Championship has witnessed numerous titanic struggles that have interested not only chess players but also the wider audience. The chessboard is the ultimate battleground of the mind, and the world champions are superior intellectual gladiators.

This magnificent collection of games from the 1960s to the 1970s forms the basis of the third part of the highly anticipated definitive history of the World Chess Championship by Garry Kasparov. Garry Kasparov, who is recognized worldwide as the greatest chess player of all time, subjects the games from this era to rigorous analysis, enhanced by the use of the latest chess software. This volume includes the games of champions Tigran Petrosian (1963-1969) and Boris Spassky (1969-1972).

However, this book is more than just a collection of games from these great players of the era. Kasparov's biographies of these champions place them within an exciting historical, political, and cultural context. Kasparov explains how each champion brought their own distinctive style to the board and enriched game theory with new ideas.