Cold War chess tale

BOOK: IN SPY'S MATE, READERS ARE INTRODUCED TO PRODIGY YASHA

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Spy's Mate: A Novel Author: Brad Buchanan Publisher: Thinkers Publishing Release Date: 14 October ISBN-13: 978-9083488233 Available for preorder at www.amazon.com/Spys-Mate-Novel-Brad-Buchanan/dp/BODNBP4WVW

Long before Netflix made chess glamorous with The Queen's Gambit, the game was already a high-stakes battlefield and the Soviet Union was determined to win at any cost.

In his riveting new book, Spy's Mate, author Brad Buchanan exposes the Cold War's hidden front lines, where KGB meddling and rigged matches weren't just paranoia, but chilling reality.

"Bobby Fischer was right," Buchanan said. "The Russians really were conspiring against outsiders to keep the world chess championship to themselves if at all possible."