Re: Do you like Kasparov's "On my great predecessors"?

At first I thought I had just missed the section where Tal was
mentioned but after re-reading Fauber I realized that Tal just doesn't
appear anywhere - a gaping hole in an otherwise interesting book.

>Anthony Saidy wrote a book called The March of Chess Ideas, but it collapses
>into some pretty cheap shots at Karpov at the end, which bring into
>questions the validity of the rest of the book...as it his case so often in
>chess, some people let their politics run rampant over their perception of
>the game.  R.E. Fauber wrote Impact of Chess, ostensibly covering 500 years
>of GM chess, but he forgot Tal, and considering that he gives sections to
>Mieses, Menchik, and Breyer, you have to wonder what was on his mind to
>simply ignore one of our most interesting WCs.
>
>TMB