El mejor de los tiempos

Chess is not a parallel universe, nor is it enclosed in a bubble.

The twentieth century is gone, never to return. But his great events on the checkered board deserve to be rescued and valued, in what has been, at the same time, the worst and the best of all time.

Chess is one of the most beautiful manifestations of the game that life has given us and in it, in the world, its work and its history are inscribed.

The book is not only a story: it is also a tribute to the interpreters and protagonists of these events, the chess players, whose main seekers of chess gold and magicians of the harlequinade board, have imprinted their mark on the history of the king of games, throughout the twentieth century. Not all are heroes. As in life, there are also second-rate players and anti-heroes, some of whom have left us stellar and memorable creations. This is the world and this is human nature in its complexity and dialectical interaction.