White King and Red Queen or Blooding at Great Meadows

White King and Red Queen: How the Cold War Was Fought on the Chessboard

Author: Daniel Johnson

Daniel Johnson -- journalist, editor, scholar, and chess enthusiast who
once played Garry Kasparov to a draw in a simultaneous exhibition --
is the perfect guide to one of history's most remarkable periods,
when chess matches were front-page news and captured the world's imagination.

The Cold War played out in many areas: geopolitical alliances, military
coalitions, cat-and-mouse espionage, the arms race, proxy wars -- and
chess. An essential pastime of Russian intellectuals and revolutionaries,
and later adopted by the Communists as a symbol of Soviet power, chess
was inextricably linked to the rise and fall of the "evil empire." This original
narrative history recounts in gripping detail the singular part the
Immortal Game played in the Cold War. From chess's role in the Russian
Revolution -- Marx, Lenin, and Trotsky were all avid players -- to the 1945
radio match when the Soviets crushed the Americans, prompting Stalin's
telegram "Well done lads!"; to the epic contest between Bobby Fischer
and Boris Spassky in 1972 at the height of détente, when Kissinger told
Fischer to "go over there and beat the Russians"; to the collapse of the
Soviet Union itself, White King and Red Queen takes us on a fascinating
tour of the Cold War's checkered landscape.

Table of Contents:

1 From Baghdad to St. Petersburg 1

2 The recreation of the revolution 13

3 Terror 23

4 The opium of the intellectuals 41

5 The emigres 48

6 The patriarch and his progeny 65

7 The Jewish factor 76

8 The American way of chess 105

9 Bobby's odyssey 117

10 An Achilles without an Achilles heel 138

11 The death of Hector 164

12 The machine age 202

13 Defying the evil empire 225

14 The yogi versus the commissar 249

15 Soviet endgame : Kasparov versus Karpov 267

16 After the Cold War 299

Epilogue 315

Essay on sources 321

Bibliography 331

Index 338

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