Karsten Müller once again sets out to find truth in a famous endgame. This time he looks at the 27th game of the 1st World Championship match between Anatoly Karpov and Garry Kasparov, which is generally regarded as a fine example of Karpov's outstanding technique. But how well did Karpov and Kasparov really play the endgame in this famous game?
The Pawtucket Red Soxâ half-century at McCoy Stadium wasnât supposed to end like this.
The team had been poised to spend its final season in Rhode Island before the Boston Red Sox Triple A franchise traded 78-year-old McCoy Stadium for brand, spanking new Polar Park â an $86 million facility under construction 45 miles to the northwest in Worcester that will seat 9,508 fans â by saluting local fans for their longtime support.
PawSox officials had planned on doing that by holding a season-long toast to the teamâs last 50 years at McCoy. Highlights were to have included weekly fireworks shows (including Fourth of July extravaganzas on July 2-3), dozens of souvenir giveaways and legend nights featuring prominent retired Red Sox and PawSox players.
Tal, Petrosian, Spassky and Korchnoi: A Chess Multibiography with 207 Games, McFarland 2020
Tigran Petrosian (born on 17 June 1929 in Tbilisi), Viktor Korchnoi (born on 23 March 1931 in Leningrad), Mikhail Tal (born on 9 November 1936 in Riga) and Boris Spassky (born on 30 January 1937 in Leningrad) are among the most important chess players of the 20th century. Three of them were world champions, while Viktor Korchnoi came close twice. The four were born between 1929 and 1937; they were rivals, friends, enemies and companions and had a decisive influence on chess in the second half of the century.
In his fascinating multi-biography, Andrew Soltis tells the story of these four top players, their development, their rise to the top, their setbacks and crises, their rivalry and friendship from 1929 until 1972, when Spassky lost the World Championship title in Reykjavik and, for the first time since 1948, the world champion was not a Soviet player.