{"product_id":"9784871875103","title":"Great Chess Upsets","description":"This is a collection of 69 annotated games played by 17 of the greatest chess players in history. The games are nicely laid out in descriptive notation. Included with each of the games is a biography of the players.\u003cp\u003eThis book is a good read. Even without playing over the games, readers will find it enjoyable.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAlthough the games are labeled \"upsets\", not all are considered upsets in the prospective of history. For example, Morphy's defeat of Anderssen in 1858 might have been considered an upset at the time it was played when Morphy had just arrived in Europe, but we now recognize that Morphy was a stronger player than Anderssen.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis collection includes four games lost by Bobby Fischer at near his peak plus games lost by each of the World Champions from Steinitz, Lasker, Capablanca and Alekhine to Botvinnik, Tal, Petrosian and Spassky.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSamuel Reshevsky is the ideal person to write this book because he played all of them except for Steinitz.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Ishi Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50085127487728,"sku":"9784871875103","price":25.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9784871875103","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}