He was fat and popularity hardly folllowed him around like a dog, though he was an old dog. He was also KGB. Now he’s dead, Eddie Gufeld perhaps deserves a degree of respect. His book, The Search for the Mona Lisa came out in Batsfords about ten years ago. I still like it! If you enjoy the King’s Indian, you may love it also. He puts in his Immortal Game, stories about girls, ‘Korchnoi is Korchnoi’, A rare king march (v Bronstein). He tells of ‘The Tragedy of One Tempo’ against Romanishin … ah, it reads like a Bronstein classic, yet much of this is new to us in the West.
