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Gary Kasparov was still a child when Mikhail Botvinnik (1911-1995), the patriarch of Soviet chess, saw in him a future champion and a revolutionary, and welcomed him as a favorite student in his special school for great talents. No matter how clairvoyant Botvinnik was, he could not imagine that 30 years later that restless Azerbaijani youth would dissect the games of all the world champions with exemplary depth. In this second volume, Kasparov analyzes the scientific style that defined his beloved professor, the almost poetic harmony of Vasili Smyslov, the volcanic mind in permanent eruption of Mijail Tal and the coherence and mental discipline of the only champion not born in the USSR (or Russia) of those who reigned between 1927 and 1972, the Dutchman Max Euwe. The work is completed with a tribute to justice: Paul Keres, David Bronstein and Efim Geller were uncrowned champions, they did not reach the throne due to bad luck or because they were born a few years before or after, and it is right that they appear in this gallery of dissected kings, whose faces can be seen on 64 pages (one for each square on the board!) dedicated to photos.