The book of one of the strongest chess players in the world, grandmaster Viktor Korchnoi, is published in the new series of Astrel publishing house - Memoirs of a Chess Player. In it, the author talks about his sports career and the fierce rivalry in the struggle for world championship with the 12th champion of the planet Anatoly Karpov in Baguio (1978) and Merano (1981). The uncompromising and frank nature of the narrative will remind the reader of the drama of those days.