My Great Predecessors series Garry Kasparov

in 2003, first volume of five-volume work garry kasparov on great predecessors published. volume, deals world chess champions wilhelm steinitz, emanuel lasker, josé raúl capablanca, alexander alekhine, , of strong contemporaries, has received lavish praise reviewers (including nigel short), while attracting criticism others historical inaccuracies , analysis of games directly copied unattributed sources. through suggestions on book s website, of these shortcomings corrected in following editions , translations. despite this, first volume won british chess federation s book of year award in 2003. volume two, covering max euwe, mikhail botvinnik, vasily smyslov , mikhail tal appeared later in 2003. volume three, covering tigran petrosian , boris spassky appeared in 2004. in december 2004, kasparov released volume four, covers samuel reshevsky, miguel najdorf, , bent larsen (none of these 3 world champions), focuses on bobby fischer. fifth volume, devoted chess careers of world champion anatoly karpov , challenger viktor korchnoi, published in march 2006.