Title:
White king and red queen : how the Cold War was fought on the chessboard
Author:
Publication Date:
2008
Publication Information:
Boston : Houghton Mifflin Co., c2008.
Physical Description:
xxx, 352 p., [12] p. of plates : ill. ; 24 cm.
ISBN:
9780547133379
General Note:
Originally published: London : Atlantic Books, 2007.
Contents:
From Baghdad to St. Petersburg -- The recreation of the revolution -- Terror -- The opium of the intellectuals -- The émigrés -- The patriarch and his progeny -- The Jewish factor -- The American way of chess -- Bobby's odyssey -- An achilles without an achilles heel -- The death of Hector -- The machine age -- Defying the evil empire -- The yogi versus the commissar -- Soviet endgame : Kasparov versus Karpov -- After the Cold War.
Language:
English
