• Rubinstein’s excellent rook endgame technique
• Alekhine’s expertise with the heavy pieces
• Botvinnik’s ability for deep analysis
• Tal’s handling of heavy pieces vs. minor pieces
• Petrosian’s positional exchange sacrifices
• Fischer’s strength with the king’s bishop
• Karpov’s handling of bishops of opposite colour
• Korchnoi the rebel
• Carlsen the new king

Content

004 Key to symbols used & Bibliography

005 Preface

011 1. Akiba Rubinstein’s Rook Endings

083 2. Alexander Alekhine and the Fourth Phase of the Game

117 3. In the Patriarch’s Footsteps

153 4. Tal’s Super Rooks vs. Two Minor Pieces

189 5. Petrosian’s Exchange Sacrifices

255 6. Bobby Fischer’s Pet Bishop

307 7. Karpov’s Opposite Coloured Bishops Endings

375 8. Viktor, the “Non-Existent” Hero

423 9. Quo Vadis, Magnus?

457 Biographies of Our Heroes

469 Name Index

473 Game Index

476 Alphabetical Game Index