by Victor KorchnoiHardcover: 220 pagesPublisher: Georg Olms Verlag AG (February 1, 2002)ISBN: 3283004056For almost half a century grandmaster Victor Korchnoi has been one of the world's leading chess players, and even today he remains a formidable competitor. This new collection covers his entire career. Korchnoi's annotations are honest, detailed and instructive. This volume gives his best games as Black, with which he has always excelled as a determinded defender, ready, when the oppurtunity presents itself, to switch to counterattack. The author pays particular attention to the psychological role of the defender, which helps to explain why, throughout his career, he has won as many games with Black as he has with White.