CompleteGames of Mikhail Tal 1960-66 HilaryThomas I l,ll I ri \ !i Mikhail Tå1, the Latvian (USSR)grandmaster and World Champion in 1960-61, is acknorvledged as the greatest attacking player, and the most dgramic, of the last 25 years. His games have stimulated chess players at every level all over the world. This volume contains all available games that Thl played during his most successful period, including the two world championship clashes with Botvinnik. Many of the games have notes based on contenlporary annotation that derived from Tål himself. Such a game collection will give years of pleasure to the casual dipper. But, much more important, it is a vital working tool for the serious plaver, who rlav wish to model himself on a super-master like Tal. He can appreciate how Tål tackles and develops opening ideas from game to game and hou'he copes with masters of various strengths and styles; he can see too the tactical possibilities revealed bv these ganles, and trv to acquire Thl's flair. In short, b1' studying a top grandmaster in depth, he can understand the realities of modern chess. Hilarv Thomas, a first team plaver of the Athenaeum Chess Club and a close collaborator n.ith Batsforcl's adviser R G \\/ade, has for manv vears been svstematicallv collecting all Tal's {ralnes. I'he laspnl illustrutiort ol 7hl (plu_tirts asainst Botdtuik)is reproclucecl bt, courtes! of' )'ot'osti Press Apencr. 160 pages 200 diasrams A BATSI'ORD CHESS BOOK * Other Grandnutster Chess front Batsford Karpov's Games as World Champion 1975-8 Alexander Æekhine K O'Connell ancl D N L Levv Alexander Kotov J *Korchnoi's 400 Best Games The Best Games of Portisch V Korchnoi, R G Wade, I- S Blackstock Egon Varnusz Spassky's 100 Best Games *Botvinnik's Best Games 1917-70 Bernard Cafferty Mikhail Botvinnik Tal's 100 Best Games 196l-73 xChess is my Life Bernard Cafferty Viktor Korchnoi Tigran Petrosian Games of Robert Fischer J V K Vasiliev R G \Vade and K I O'Connell Unknown Capablanca *Complete Games of Wbrld Champion David Hooper and Dale Brandreth Anatoly Karpov : JB Adams, D N L Levy, KJ O'Cor-rnell * aaailable in paperback ISBN O 7T31T8621.