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This magnificent volume contains the extraordinary story of the prolonged battle between Bobby Fischer, the lone American genius who is perhaps the most famous chess player of all time, and the long-standing and all-dominating Soviet chess machine. For the first time readers will be able to view virtually all the secret documents on &quotethe Fischer problem&quote, many of which have never previously been published. There are also reports and analysis of Fischer&quotes personality and play, written at the demand of the Soviet authorities by the country&quotes leading Grandmasters, legends such as Mikhail Tal, Tigran Petrosian, Vassily Smyslov, Paul Keres, Victor Korchnoi and Efim Geller. Also contained in Russians v Fischer are annotations and the stories on all of the 158 chess encounters between Fischer and his Soviet adversaries, and a large number of rare photographs and drawings. This book is a significantly enlarged and updated version of the one first published in Russia in 1994. Dmitry Plisetsky and Sergey Voronkov are well-known chess journalists and authors of numerous chess books. Plisetsky was co-author (along with Garry Kasparov) of the award winning My Great Predecessors volumes.