Magnum opus

A new book on the ingenious Hungarian master Gyula Breyer ranks, in my opinion, at the very top of chess publications, along with Kasparov’s various mega series, Nimzowitsch’s My System, and Alekhine’s books of his best games. It is a compendium of games, discursive digressions, notes, discreet modern corrections, scholarly research, history, theory and perhaps most impressive of all, Breyer’s philosophy of the art, science and sport of chess.

I just have one query, a strange reference by Dvoretsky in his notes to Breyer v. Esser. Tal v. Tolush 1957 USSR Championship seems to be strangely misattributed, with White (instead of Tal) being given as somebody I have never heard of, one Szucs. It transpires that this is one of those mysterious computer glitches, for which there is no apparent reason: wherever Mikhail Tal should be mentioned, the enigmatic and nonexistent Szucs appears in his stead. That apart, this is a chess epic of Tolstoyan magnitude, which will inevitably enter the annals of chess literary classics.