This Crazy World of Chess

Fascinating, intriguing, and controversial, the dean of American chess tells the never-before-told machinations and stories of world championship chess and what really goes on behind the scenes of the game at its highest level. If you think that chess and marbles are the only games free from politics, you can scratch that idea. These 101 entertaining dispatches from the front deal with the crazy world of chess ranging from politics, Fischermania (and Fischer's paranoid antics), the real deal behind the deep blue supercomputer that beat Kasparov, to just plain gossip and fun.

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5/5: From: Amazon; Posted: Apr-18-2008; "This Crazy World of Chess" is a winner!; I grew up dining on "Evans on Chess" once a month in Chess Life.Grandmaster Evans would answer questions,comment on games and then unlike any other chess writer he'd pull away the curtain and expose us to the other side of chess.The...; read full review | report as inappropriate

1/5: From: Amazon; Posted: Mar-11-2008; The Crazy World of This Chess Book Buying Junkie; At $9.95 and 294 pages, you, the chess afficionado, are contemplating purchasing a compilation of reprinted articles (circa 2002-2006), usually 1¼ pages in length at a bargain price of approximately . 03 cents per page.Confronted with...; read full review | report as inappropriate

5/5: From: Amazon; Posted: Nov-07-2007; Review by James Weaver; REVIEW BY JAMES WEAVERTHIS CRAZY WORLD OF CHESS arrived yesterday. I was able to finish it(minus 20 pages about specific games) this morning. I enjoyed it verymuch, and especially like the format that highlights relevant situations that...; read full review | report as inappropriate

5/5: From: Amazon; Posted: Oct-23-2007; Entertainingly Informative; Grandmaster Larry Evans really was right in the thick of things during so many major chess events and scandals. With numerous jabs at the corrupt FIDE and many chapters about the eccentric Bobby Fischer, Evans covers a multitude of...; read full review | report as inappropriate

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5/5: From: Amazon; Posted: Apr-18-2008; "This Crazy World of Chess" is a winner!; I grew up dining on "Evans on Chess" once a month in Chess Life.Grandmaster Evans would answer questions,comment on games and then unlike any other chess writer he'd pull away the curtain and expose us to the other side of chess.The...; read full review | report as inappropriate

1/5: From: Amazon; Posted: Mar-11-2008; The Crazy World of This Chess Book Buying Junkie; At $9.95 and 294 pages, you, the chess afficionado, are contemplating purchasing a compilation of reprinted articles (circa 2002-2006), usually 1¼ pages in length at a bargain price of approximately . 03 cents per page.Confronted with...; read full review | report as inappropriate