Chess: The Making of the Musical by William R. Hartston, Tim Rice, Björn Ulvaeus and Benny AnderssonPavillion Books | November 1986 | ISBN-10: 1851450068 | PDF | 100 pagesref> ebook> art-forms> musicsummer 2013Intro by Tim RiceSuperb, and jam-packed full of photos and illustrations. 5* Murray Head
Maybe the best piece of chess humour ever. If you're not a chessplayer, you're unlikely to get most of the jokes - but if you are, I recommend it strongly! My favourite chapter is the Shakespeare pastiche, "Victor the Second, Part One", about the 1978 Korchnoi-Karpov match. An extract:FIRST SECOND: ...
I learned the Grunfeld defence from this book as a teenager. If you don't know it, here's the basic position.Black hands White the center, but plans on counter-attacking later on; both Fischer and Kasparov used it regularly.I had good results with the Grunfeld, including a win with Black against van...