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"The idea of this unusual book occurred to us a few years ago, when we chanced upon some confidential documents of the Chess Federation and the Sports Committee of the USSR dating back to the early 70s." -  Dmitry Piletsky and Sergey Voronkov

All of the documents concerned Bobby Fischer, the most dangerous rival of the Soviet chessplayers in the entire postwar period, who in 1972 managed to wrest the world title from them.

The existence of such documents was known (for example, from books by Korchoi and Kasparov), but they had never appeared in the press. These were "official" letters by leading Soviet grandmasters, containing a detailed analysis of Fischer's personality and playing, documents of special-purpose methodological meetings, and the minutes of the meetings of the country's chess leadership devoted to the "Fischer problem". Quite recently there also surfaced secret documents of the Central Committee of the Soviet Communist Party, which have thrown light on the role played in the struggle for the world chess crown by - party functionaries!

It would of course have been possible simply to publish all these documents, but it seemed to us that the subject of "The Russians versus Fischer" was much broader, for it covered not only political intrigues but also a wealth of chess material: over one hundred of Fischer's games with the leading exponents of the Soviet School of chess.

That was how this book was born.

A brief list of a few sub-chapters should be enough to whet anyone's chess appetite: Confidential Letters by Soviet Grandmasters (Tal, Petrosyan, Keres, Smyslov, Polugayevsky, Alatortsev); Secret Documents of the Central Committee of the Communist Party; Fischer's Play: An Analysis (The Conclusion of a Special Methodological Meeting). Overall, this hardcover book is 396 pages long, and contains 148 of Fischer's games, many with light annotations. There are also additional comments by Soviet contemporaries analyzing and evaluating Fischer’s play.

Yuri Averbakh writes: "This book is the story of how this American solitary genius purposefully, step by step and year after year, forced his way through the serried ranks of the Soviet grandmasters to the chess throne, how he dethroned Boris Spassky and became the 11th world champion, putting an end to the many years of the Soviet chess school's hegemony. What makes this book unique is the fact that for the first time it provides a picture of Fischer as seen through the eyes of representatives of that school; as for the documents cited in it, they were not known either in Russia or in the West."

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