Petrosyan. Year after year. Volume 1. 1942-1962. Karai T., Gozalyan T.

International Master Tibor Karaii and Master Fide Tigran Gozalyan prepared capital labor (in two volumes), dedicated to the life and work of the 9th world champion of chess Tigran Petrosyan. Tom I (1942-1962) tells about the children's years of Petrosyan, starting from the war years, successes in the championships of Georgia and Armenia, about turning it into a world-class chess player (USSR champion, Olympic gold). The final year is the victory at the famous tournament of applicants for Curasao -1962.

The authors involved modern computers subjected to deep analysis of 148 full parties and fragments, they gave characteristics to almost all the famous parties of Petrosyan during this period against the background of the movement along tours in Each tournament and match. Very few of the parties cited were studied in detail earlier, but even then a substantially improved analysis is given in the book.

among the opponents of Petrosyan in volume I - the world champions and applicants Fisher, Tal, Spassky, Botvinnik, Smyslov, Ave, Korchny and Bronstein, as well as Keres, Geller, Benko, Polugaevsky, Reshevsky, Taimanov, Kotov, Gligorich and others. Special attention is paid to his coaches - Eblidze, Liliental and Boleslavsky.

Rare photos from private collections of chess players of Georgia are given and Armenia, many of which were previously not published.

The author of the preface is one of the strongest chess players of Armenia Devon Aronyan.

photo on the cover: Tigran Petrosyan plays with Konstantin Claman in the semifinals of the USSR Championship, Tbilisi (9th tour), 1949. Photo from the archive of David Gurgenidze.