Pachman's Decisive Games
New York: Pitman Publishing, 1975.
Hardcover.
Translated by A. S. Russell. This is an enlarged and updated edition of Pachman's Entscheidungspartien, published in 1972 by Walter Rau Verlag, Dusseldorf.
An analysis of the most important chess tournaments and matches from Baden-Baden 1870 to the 1972 World Championship between Spasski and Fischer, selected by International Grandmaster Ludek Pachman. The fifty games chosen are mostly those between the strongest competitors, or games in the last round which both players must win. The course of each event is described in such a way as to bring out the drama surrounding it, followed in each case by a deep analysis of the decisive game or games. Pachman provides insights into the psychology of chess under stress and reviews the tournament tactics and the psychological processes by which one player wears down his opponent's resistance.
Item #901539ISBN: 0273318128
6-1/8 x 9-3/8”, orange paper over boards, viii, 258pp, index of games and positions, index of openings, illus.
A little bumping to extreme upper corners of boards, small area of roughing to first free endpaper from erasure, tight, clean, very good in price-clipped dust wrapper and protective mylar.
Price: $30.00