About the book: 1936 / This book presents biographical novels about two great chess players: Wilhelm Steinitz and Emanuel Lasker. Both of these chess geniuses raised chess to unattainable heights, both of them devoted their entire lives and the entire content of their spiritual and intellectual personality to it. To show a human being in a chess player, to show a thinker, an artist, a fighter in this person—this is the task of a book dedicated to the first two world chess champions. At the end of the book the reader will find several games characteristic of the style of these two chess players.