The Human Comedy of Chess: A Grandmaster’s Chronicles

Hans Ree, the Dutch grandmaster and leading international chess journalist, provides a collection of his most fascinating insights into chess developments in recent years, including the rise of Kasparov, the splintering of the World Chess Federation, the ‘trivialization’ of the world championship, and the most important one-on-one matches. He also examines some of the ‘ancient history’ of chess. These articles give the reader an excellent overview of the diverse events of the last decade.