Mikhail Tal's Best Games 2 - The World Champion by Tibor Karolyi

This Mikhail Tal's Best Games 2 - The World Champion is an English-language paperback chess book by Tibor Károlyi, covering Tal’s best games from 1960 to 1971 with modern analysis.

About this book

This second volume in a three-book series follows Mikhail Tal’s world championship years and the period after he lost the title, when he remained one of the most dangerous and admired players in the world.

Károlyi combines detailed chess analysis with a clear account of Tal’s career, so the book works both as study material and as a readable introduction to one of chess history’s most distinctive figures.

Why it stands out

For players who want to study Tal’s games in depth, the book shows how he created attacks, complicated positions and kept the initiative. It also fits naturally into a chess library focused on world champions and classic attacking play.

The analysis is concrete where it needs to be, but it remains readable, which makes the book suitable for ambitious club players as well as readers interested in chess history.

Edition information

• Author: Tibor Károlyi
• Title: Mikhail Tal's Best Games 2 - The World Champion
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Page count: 360
• Publication date: 22 July 2015
• ISBN: 978-1-907982-79-8

Key details

• Product type: chess book
• Series position: second volume in a three-volume series
• Subject: Mikhail Tal
• Time period covered: 1960-1971
• Binding: paperback
• Page count: 360
• Publication date: 22 July 2015
• ISBN: 978-1-907982-79-8