Botvinnik’s Best Games Volume 1: 1925-1941 by Mikhail Botvinnik

A translation of Botvinniks Moscow 1984 publication Analiticheskie. I kriticheskie raboty 1923-1941. Two further volumes on offer. Contains 121 games with Botvinniks annotations, plus pen pictures of many of his opponents. 30 pages of crosstables and statistics of Botvinniks career, 16 pages of excellent photographs (many never previously published), and an index of openings. A superb work which does justice to one of the all-time great chess players at a time when he was crossing swords with the legendary stars of the inter-war period.

Hardback, 392 pages, Moravian Chess