The Human Comedy of Chess A Grandmaster's Chronicles

Rating:
Summary: Very entertaining
Review: This book is a collection of diiferent articles that Ree has written. Among the topics that he covers are the FIDE conrtoversies of the mid 90's. Another one of the articles is a very interesting idea about what really happened in the first Karpov - Kasporov match. There is a long article about the KGB involvement in chess. This is a topic that still hasn't been completely explored. As a person who has studied Soviet History, I think that while many of his conclusions are valid, most Westerners have basic mis-understandings of what Soviet society was really like. There are also a couple of short biographies about famous and not so famous chess players.

Rating:
Summary: Very entertaining
Review: This book is a collection of diiferent articles that Ree has written. Among the topics that he covers are the FIDE conrtoversies of the mid 90's. Another one of the articles is a very interesting idea about what really happened in the first Karpov - Kasporov match. There is a long article about the KGB involvement in chess. This is a topic that still hasn't been completely explored. As a person who has studied Soviet History, I think that while many of his conclusions are valid, most Westerners have basic mis-understandings of what Soviet society was really like. There are also a couple of short biographies about famous and not so famous chess players.