by Yasser Seirawan and Jonathan Tisdall, 256pp. (1991 Inside Chess)

Five is the number of world chess championship matches that Garry Kasparov and Anatoly Karpov contested from 1984 to 1990. Yasser Seirawan deeply analyses all 24 games of the 1990 New York/Lyon World Championship Match. Yasser answers all the big questions: who was brilliant, who was belligerent, who blew it, and why. Jonathan Tisdall reports all the news from ringside. Also includes every game (unannotated) played between Kasparov and Karpov, as of June 1991, by opening.

“I highly recommend Five Crowns to all chess players.”
Georgia Chess

“Five Crowns is particularly notable; it was by far the best book on that match.”
Chess Perspectives

“Five Crowns is my best work.” Yasser Seirawan