In Mikhail Tal: The Street-Fighting Years , Tal\'s long-term coach and second Alexander Koblenz takes the reader through the first 12 Years of Tal\'s chess career, from promising junior to world champion in 1960 and encompassing his return world championship match against Mikhail Botvinnik in 1961.
This classic book, first published in the Soviet Union in 1963, contains 77 games and fragments annotated by the author who provides ring-side comment.
In Mikhail Tal: The Street-Fighting Years , Tal\'s long-term coach and second Alexander Koblenz takes the reader through the first 12 Years of Tal\'s chess career, from promising junior to world champion in 1960 and encompassing his return world championship match against Mikhail Botvinnik in 1961