Botvinnik's Best Games: Volume 1: 1925 - 1941

A translation of Botvinnik´s Moscow 1984 publication Analiticheskie. I kriticheskie raboty 1923-1941. Contains 121 games with Botvinnik´s annotations, plus pen pictures of many of his opponents. 30 pages of crosstables and statistics of Botvinnik´s career, 16 pages of excellent photographs (many never previously published), and an index of openings. A superb work which does justice to one of the all-time great chess players at a time when he was crossing swords with the legendary stars of the inter-war period.