Curacao 1962 - Jan TimmanPaperback, 224 pages, New in Chess Curacao 1962 by Jan Timman The Battle of Minds that Shook the Chess World The 1962 Candidates Tournament in Curaao was one of the fiercest chess battles of all time. At the height of the Cold War, eight players contested the right to challenge World Champion Mikhail Botvinnik. The format of the tournament was a gruelling quadruple round robin. Twenty eight games were to be played on the tropical island, in a contest