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I like the selection of the games and the explanations are easy to understand and to the point. But the best part if how the story is told, complete with historical backgrounds and lots of anecdotes. -- Karsten Muller, author of 'Bobby Fisher, The Career and Complete Games' A new, entertaining and well-structured chronicle, suitable for all those chess friends who are more interested in real stories than in dry opening theory. -- Walter Eigenmann Glarean Magazine I enjoyed the book immensely. -- John Watson The Week In Chess Chess journalist Andre Schulz's story covers a lot of ground over a wide period of time and is full of interesting facts and assessments. -- Martin Breutigam Berliner Tagesspiegel Schulz handles his material very well and his style is that of a historiographical narrator. An excellent documentary book that every chess player should have who is not just interested in the game itself. -- Uwe Bekemann German Correspondence Chess Federation I read it from cover to cover with great pleasure. -- Matthew Sadler, Grandmaster, former British Champion A splendid book. They used to say: this book belongs in your library - and I am saying it now. -- B.H. Wilders Nederlands Dagblad From Steinitz playing for reduced fees when proper stakes could not be raised by his challengers to the lights going out on Anand and Topalov, this book covers historically interesting facts pertaining to the matches. This book also does a good job of going beyond the matches themselves to get into many of the details regarding the players (..) I highly recommend this book to anyone who enjoys learning about the history of the royal game and give it five out of five stars. -- Chris Wainscott ChessIQ A fantastic book. -- Johan Hut Noordhollands Dagblad The 46 matches for the world title have produced much magnificent chess, as well as plenty of off-the-board drama. Schultz succinctly but enjoyably recounts the background to each contest, as well as all the incidents which occurred during it. CHESS Magazine (UK)

""I like the selection of the games and the explanations are easy to understand and to the point. But the best part if how the story is told, complete with historical backgrounds and lots of anecdotes."" -- Karsten Muller, author of 'Bobby Fisher, The Career and Complete Games' ""A new, entertaining and well-structured chronicle, suitable for all those chess friends who are more interested in real stories than in dry opening theory."" -- Walter Eigenmann Glarean Magazine ""I enjoyed the book immensely."" -- John Watson The Week In Chess ""Chess journalist Andre Schulz's story covers a lot of ground over a wide period of time and is full of interesting facts and assessments."" -- Martin Breutigam Berliner Tagesspiegel ""Schulz handles his material very well and his style is that of a historiographical narrator. An excellent documentary book that every chess player should have who is not just interested in the game itself."" -- Uwe Bekemann German Correspondence Chess Federation ""I read it from cover to cover with great pleasure."" -- Matthew Sadler, Grandmaster, former British Champion ""A splendid book. They used to say: this book belongs in your library - and I am saying it now."" -- B.H. Wilders Nederlands Dagblad ""From Steinitz playing for reduced fees when proper stakes could not be raised by his challengers to the lights going out on Anand and Topalov, this book covers historically interesting facts pertaining to the matches. This book also does a good job of going beyond the matches themselves to get into many of the details regarding the players (..) I highly recommend this book to anyone who enjoys learning about the history of the royal game and give it five out of five stars."" -- Chris Wainscott ChessIQ ""A fantastic book."" -- Johan Hut Noordhollands Dagblad ""The 46 matches for the world title have produced much magnificent chess, as well as plenty of off-the-board drama. Schultz succinctly but enjoyably recounts the background to each contest, as well as all the incidents which occurred during it."" CHESS Magazine (UK)

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Andre Schulz is a respected German chess journalist. He is the editor-in-chief of the ChessBase newssite.

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