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Child of Change: The Autobiography of the World Chess Champion

3.56 of 5 stars 3.56 · rating details · 25 ratings · 3 reviews
Paperback , 272 pages
Published October 11th 1990 by HarperCollins Publishers (first published January 1st 1987)
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notgettingenough
Dec 05, 2009 notgettingenough rated it 1 of 5 stars
Shelves: games , will-be-regretted-on-my-deathbed
Such a dreadful book - paranoid vitriol on every page - that I've let it put me off having any positive thoughts about the man. Evidently I have to change my tune and read his series on his predecessors, even if the point of it is to indirectly bignote himself. Okay, okay. I will have nothing but the most open of minds. Really.
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Manny
Jul 11, 2010 Manny rated it 1 of 5 stars
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To quote the Swedish proverb: även solen har sina fläckar . Even the Sun has spots.
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« J’ai vu que les sports n’existent pas dans le vide. Nous sommes tous le produit d’un système. Pour une raison que je ne pouvais pas comprendre, mon talent paraissait menacer l’ordre des choses. Bien sûr, ce n’était pas vrai. J’en suis venu à comprendre qu’il menaçait seulement certains individus, ceux dont les intérêts dépendent de la survie d’un système."

« Je me demandais s’il n’y avait pas là une nouvelle provocation, destinée à créer des conditions impossibles et visant en fait à ce que je ...more
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Russian (formerly Soviet) chess grandmaster, former World Chess Champion, writer, and political activist, whom many consider the greatest chess player of all time.
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