This book completes a glowing tribute to the brilliant chess career and life story of Boris Spassky, by biographer extraordinaire Tibor Karolyi. We continue the story where Volume 1 left off, with Spassky poised to claim the title of World Champion in 1969. Even after his famous defeat at the hands of Bobby Fischer in Reykjavik 1972, Boris Spassky remained among the strongest players in the world, and his masterpieces continued to delight chess lovers for decades to come.

Boris Vasilyevich Spassky was a Russian chess grandmaster who was the tenth World Chess Champion, holding the title from 1969 to 1972. Spassky played three world championship matches: he lost to Tigran Petrosian in 1966; defeated Petrosian in 1969 to become world champion; then lost to Bobby Fischer in a famous match in 1972.

Tibor Károlyi is a Hungarian chess International Master, International Arbiter (1997), coach, theoretician, and author.

Károlyi won the open Hungarian Chess Championship in 1984 (the closed championship was won by Andras Adorjan). In 1989 he started his coaching career. Among his students were Peter Leko, Judit Polgár, Ildikó Mádl and Jason Goh Koon-Jong.

Károlyi has written numerous theoretical articles for New in Chess, but he is probably best known as author of popular chess books. His book Endgame Virtuoso Anatoly Karpov (co-authored with Nick Aplin) won The Guardian 2007 Chess Book of the Year award.

His handle on Playchess is "tkarolyi".