Chess Book,Chess Olympiad 1972,1st Ed.HB/wDJ

Chess Book,"Chess Olympiad 1972,by Keene and Levy,Hardbound,1st Edition with dust jacket, 237 pages,8-3/4" L x 5-5/8" W .A beautiful jet black book with gold lettering!Very tight binding.The pages clean and crisp,no writing or markings.Very fine condition!The book looks new!Dust jacket has a repaired tear on the front upper right but otherwise looks nice.It has been placed in a Brodart Archival dust jacket cover.The 1972 Chess Olympiad at Skopje,Yugoslavia was won by the Soviet Union(Petrosian,Korchnoi,Smyslov,Tal,Karpov and Savon) with 42 point,followed by Hungary with 40-1/2 and Yugoslavia with 38.The United States team finished 9th on tiebreaks with 29 points!An awesome book!!"It contains complete tables of team performances,in both the preliminary and the finals groups and of all the individual finalists;and the results of all the past Olympiads.There is also a comprehensive analysis of opening practice in the tournament by Les Blackstock.""The 144 carefully selected games are nearly all fully annotated,many by the players themselves.There is also a special feature on the three strongest future challengers to Fischer-the Russian Karpov,the Yugoslav Ljubojevic and Huebner from West Germany."PLUS almost 50 photographs,interviews with Botvinnik and Ed Edmondson,the Albania-Israel dispute and the extraordinary Trignov-Korchnoi game!Winner to pay shipping($4.00 in the conU.S. via media mail),insurance($1.65) optional but recommended.PayPal or cashiers check.Checkout my other auctions and visit my e-bay store!