In 1971 Robert James Fischer defeated Mark Taimanov by the sensational score of 60 in Vancouver but the match games were far more competitive and tensionfilled than the final score would suggest. Twenty years later Taimanov put pen to paper reflecting on the experience. Exactly 50 years after the match this is the first English translation of Taimanovs original Russian text. Taimanov provides a richly detailed honest and emotional account of the drama on and off the board. Despite the catastro