Karolyi: Boris Spasskys Best Games 1 - The Rising Star (paperback)Boris Spasskys The Rising Star Boris Spassky is the most underappreciated World Champion in chess history, remembered as the Soviet who lost to Bobby Fischer in 1972. In this two volume work, biographer extraordinaire Tibor Karolyi puts the focus on Spasskys brilliant career and life story. Born in 1937, Spassky barely escaped with his life when evacuating from the Siege of Leningrad as a young boy. This book tells the story of how that boy