Part One covers the revolution in chess openings of the 1970s in the wake of Fischer.The Modern Chess series covers chess opening developments in the 1970s, all of Kasparov's five World Championship matches with Karpov, and his other games with Karpov. Fischer refused to defend his title, making the 1974 Karpov versus Korchnoi match a de facto World Championship match. The first match was in the Candidates Tournament to determine who would challenge Fischer in 1975. Korchnoi and Karpov played three matches in the World Championship, in 1974, 1978, and 1981. Part V covers World Championship contender Victor Korchnoi and the twelfth World Champion Anatoly Karpov.The primary focus of this volume is the eleventh World Champion Bobby Fischer. Part IV starts by covering some strong Western players who were not world champions: Samuel Reshevsky, Miguel Najdorf, and Bent Larsen.Spassky challenged Petrosian unsuccessfully in 1966, but defeated him in their 1969 rematch. Petrosian ended Botvinnik's reign in 1963. Part III covers the ninth and tenth champions, Tigran Petrosian and Boris Spassky.Euwe briefly interrupted the reign of Alekhine, while Smyslov's and Tal's respective interruptions to Botvinnik's long reign were similarly brief. Part II covers the fifth through eighth world champions: Max Euwe, Mikhail Botvinnik, Vasily Smyslov, and Mikhail Tal.It then covers the first four official world champions: Wilhelm Steinitz, Emanuel Lasker, José Raúl Capablanca, and Alexander Alekhine. Part I starts with a chapter about some of the unofficial world champions (before 1886), though much of the commentary focuses on Adolf Anderssen and Paul Morphy.My Great Predecessors comprises five volumes:
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