Table of Contents
Explanation of symbols 6
Introduction 7
Part I 20th century champions I have known 15
Chapter 1 Pre-World War II masters 16
Chapter 2 Bobby Fischer 22
Chapter 3 The 1972 U.S. Championship 28
Chapter 4 Bent Larsen 40
Chapter 5 Svetozar Gligoric 43
Chapter 6 Steve Brandwein 46
Chapter 7 Finding Beth Harmon 49
Chapter 8 Roman Dzindzichashvili 58
Chapter 9 Viktor Kortchnoi 61
Chapter 10 Walter Browne 64
Chapter 11 Boris Spassky 69
Chapter 12 Garry Kasparov 72
Chapter 13 Ken Rogoff, Mark Diesen, and Eugene Meyer 75
Part II My non-chess career: options, shogi, and other games 85
Chapter 14 Chess Options 86
Chapter 15 Shogi 91
Chapter 16 Other games 102
Part III My chess career and my students 107
Chapter 17 Memorable games 108
Chapter 18 The Baltimore versus Cuba match 123
Chapter 19 Three World Seniors 126
Chapter 20 My three students who became IMs 130
Chapter 21 Raymond Kaufman 135
Part IV Computer chess 139
Chapter 22 54 years with the chess engines 140
Chapter 23 Man vs Machine, 2020 145
Chapter 24 NNUE 167
Part V Various chess-related topics 173
Chapter 25 Chess ratings 174
Chapter 26 Openings 180
Chapter 27 Material values 183
Chapter 28 What are the odds? 187
Chapter 29 What is a won game? 202
Chapter 30 A new Armageddon chess 207
Chapter 31 Reforms 211
Chapter 32 The future 218
Index of names 221