{"product_id":"2026100009608-secondhand-fischer-v-spassky-reykjavik-1972","title":"Fischer V. Spassky: Reykjavik 1972","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition remarks:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBook: Good\u003cbr\u003eJacket: N\/A\u003cbr\u003ePages: Good\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn the summer of 1972, a rain-swept Icelandic city became the epicentre of the Cold War, as two chess titans — the mercurial American Bobby Fischer and the composed Soviet grandmaster Boris Spassky — clashed in what would become the most watched and politically charged chess match in history. Fischer v. Spassky: Reykjavik 1972 chronicles every dramatic twist of that legendary contest, accompanied by a report from Reykjavik by Francis Wyndham and drawings by Michael Foreman, capturing the electric atmosphere that gripped the world far beyond the chessboard.\n\nC.H.O'D. Alexander, himself a distinguished British chess master and cryptanalyst, brings formidable analytical authority to his game-by-game commentary, illuminating the psychological warfare, strategic brilliance, and extraordinary tension that defined each move. The work stands as a landmark in chess literature — not merely a record of a tournament, but a portrait of two men embodying the ideological struggle of their era. For those who lived through it, this volume resurrects the moment in vivid detail; for those who did not, it poses an irresistible question: how does one man's genius change the world?\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Secondhand Stock","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49203105235163,"sku":"2026100009608-SECONDHAND","price":15.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0523\/7646\/9701\/files\/a14673f4-8c5f-40d8-aa8d-4e95c000ccb5.png?v=1788143815","url":"https:\/\/bookgrocer.com\/products\/2026100009608-secondhand-fischer-v-spassky-reykjavik-1972","provider":"Book Grocer","version":"1.0","type":"link"}