Kasparov On His Career, 1973-1985, Coming Out Soon

Many years ago, Garry Kasparov wrote The Test of Time, which was a pretty good summary of his career as a teen and young adult through his triumph in the candidates final over Vasily Smyslov. It didn't really touch on his development as a youngster, though, and wasn't so much autobiographical as an account of his matches and tournaments from 1978 through 1984. Igor Stohl and Tibor Karolyi have both written worthwhile two-book collections on Kasparov's career, but now at last we will have the man's own account of his career, complete with the latest and greatest version of his analytical reflections on those games.

Kasparov has already finished his series of books on his encounters with Anatoly Karpov, so the subsequent works will look at his games with everyone else. Volume 1, which Amazon claims will ship on October 18, will cover his career from 1973 (when he was 10, or even 9, depending on how early in the year he begins) through 1985, the year when he won the world championship title. It should make for interesting reading and, of course, for an incredible chess feast.

The product and ordering information for the U.S. Amazon.com site is here.

Comments

[Graham]

what are the betting odds on Karpov being bad mouthed throughout? "Even as a foetus, Karpov and the Soviet state feared my chess and were against me..."

I hope I am wrong.

[DM: Ditto - my hope is that he got it all out in the Karpov books.]

[al]

After the "red album", the "blue album"(see amazon link) is bound to become another classic... By the way, I really like the format of the books and the display on the dust jackets. The display (photos and big letters on a color background) was copied in other books (Seirawan, and Karolyi-Aplin for a parody) but does anyone know if it existed before the Kasparov series?

[JJ]

Thanks for the info.