Taimanov: I was a Victim of Bobby Fischer (hardcover) improvers knowing that only a win

knowing that only a win would enable him to retain the title

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” – Magnus Carlsen

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Taimanov: I was a Victim of Bobby Fischer (hardcover) improvers knowing that only a winIn 1971 Robert James Fischer defeated Mark Taimanov by the sensational score of 60 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 Taimanovs original Russian text. Taimanov, one of the elite Soviet grandmasters of his time, provides a