Description
When asked to describe the main personal quality that the game of chess teaches, Boris Spassky replied simply, “Persistence.” And his ability to persist is the main theme in the story of his rise to the throne of the chess world.
While his match victory over Tigran Petrosian at age thirty-two made Spassky one of the youngest champions, his road to the tile was not the meteoric surge of Paul Morphy and Mikhail Tal. Spassky, too, was a boy wonder: The youngest to hold the Grandmaster title in 1955, a World Junior Champion, a high scorer in Soviet Championships, and the receiver of many other honors before his twentieth birthday. But he would be in his late twenties before he would resume his quest for the world tile after many reverses. And even then he would fail in his first attempt to unseat Petrosian and would have to start all over again.
Condition: Good. Dustjacket with minor tears and chipping. Descriptive Notation.
