WASHINGTON, D.C. … this just in from International grandmaster/critic L. KAVALEK  … the greatest book ever published on the epic Russian world chess champion, Mikhail Botvinnik: The Life and Games of a World Chess Champion (McFarland Press), has hit the market … the man who wrote it was of course New York Post chess columnist ANDREW SOLTIS, certainly the most prolific, authoritative and comic-book-crackle-and-pop, just plain the most interesting chess scribe going today.

— Jude Acers