Karl Marx Plays Chess and Other Reports on the World's Oldest Game (McKay Chess Library)

305, [5] pp. Soltis looks at the game's geniuses and oddballs, blunders and brilliances, and a lifetime's worth of useful trivia. Drawn from his popular, long-running 'Chess to Enjoy' column in Chess Life magazine, the book includes engaging discussions of wonderfully diverse subjects, such as: the etiquette of resigning; questions never to ask a grandmaster; a never-before-published tournament game by Bobby Fischer; the greatest loser of all time; the four great unsolved chess challenges; the greatest games never played; how much the pieces are really worth; Capablanca's cooked composition; how the openings got their names; and, of course, Karl Marx's contribution to chess.