The 1978 world chess championship in the Philippines was the most riotous of modern times. Pitting the soviet defector Korchnoi against the golden boy of the soviet establishment - Karpov - the players were not just content to hammer each other over the chess board; they also enlisted such weird assistants as the parapsychologist Dr Vladimir Zukhar and orange-robed gurus from the Ananda Marga sect. The dramatis personae were completed by President Marcos, his shoe-collecting First Lady Imelda and a gaggle of shady characters from the KGB. Grandmaster Ray Keene was Korchnoi's chief second during this wild chess extravaganza and this book tells the inside story of one of the most exotic chess competitions ever staged.
- ISBN10 0713418095
- ISBN13 9780713418095
- Publish Date October 1978
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 14 May 1992
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint HarperCollins Distribution Services
- Format Paperback
- Pages 128
- Language English