Download or read book Garry Kasparov on My Great Predecessors Part Two written by Garry Kasparov and published by . This book was released on 2020-06-15 with total page 482 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Part two features the play of champions Max Euwe (1935-1937) Mikhail Botvinnik (1946-1957, 1958-1961 and 1961-1963), Vassily Smyslov (1957-1958) and Mikhail Tal (1960-1961). These books are more than just a compilation of the games of these champions. Kasparov's biographies place them in a fascinating historical, political and cultural context. Kasparov explains how each champion brought his own distinctive style to the chessboard and enriched the theory of the game with new ideas. All these games have been thoroughly reassessed with the aid of modern software technology and the new light this sheds on these classic masterpieces is fascinating.
Download or read book Garry Kasparov on My Great Predecessors Euwe Botvinnik Smyslov Tal written by Garri Kimovich Kasparov and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Garry Kasparov, the thirteenth world champion and widely acclaimed as the greatest player ever, assesses the contribution of his 12 great predecessors. This is the second part of a three-volume series.
Download or read book Garry Kasparov on My Great Predecessors Part Three written by Garry Kasparov and published by . This book was released on 2020-06-15 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This magnificent compilation of play from the 1960s through to the 1970s forms the basis of the third part of Garry Kasparov's history of the World Chess Championship. This volume features the play of champions Tigran Petrosian (1963-1969) and Boris Spassky (1969-1972).
Download or read book Chess Life written by and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 616 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Smyslov Bronstein Geller Taimanov and Averbakh written by Andrew Soltis and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2022-02-24 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A crucial decision spared chess Grandmaster David Bronstein almost certain death at the hands of the Nazis--one fateful move cost him the world championship. Russian champion Mark Taimanov was a touted as a hero of the Soviet state until his loss to Bobby Fischer all but ruined his life. Yefim Geller's dream of becoming world champion was crushed by a bad move against Fischer, his hated rival. Yuri Averbakh had no explanation how he became the world's oldest grandmaster, other than the quixotic nature of fate. Vasily Smyslov, the only one of the five to become world champion, would reign for just one year--fortune, he said, gave him pneumonia at the worst possible time. This book explores how fate played a capricious role in the lives of five of the greatest players in chess history.
Download or read book The Spectator written by and published by . This book was released on with total page 1064 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Garry Kasparov on My Great Predecessors written by Garry Kasparov and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Garry Kasparov on My Great Predecessors written by Garri Kimovich Kasparov and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Garry Kasparov on My Great Predecessors written by Garry Kasparov and published by My Great Predecessors. This book was released on 2004-04-10 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: More than just a compilation of play from the great chess players of the 1960s and 70s, Kasparov's biographies place these champions in a fascinating historical, political, and cultural context.
Download or read book Timman s Titans written by Jan Timman and published by New In Chess. This book was released on 2016-10-13 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Stories and the Games: Alekhine – Euwe – Botvinnik – Smyslov – Tal - Petrosian – Spassky – Fischer - Karpov – Kasparov For many years Jan Timman was one of the best chess players in the world. He combined his brilliant successes on the board with a passion for writing and meticulously analysing his own games and those of his rivals. Three times he was a World Championship Candidate and in 1993 he played in the final of the FIDE World Championship. In this fascinating book, Jan Timman portrays ten World Chess Champions that played an important role in his life and career. Alexander Alekhine (1892-1946) he never met, but the story of how in Lisbon he bought one of the last chess sets belonging to the fourth World Champion is one of many highlights in this book. Timman has a keen eye for detail and a fabulous memory, and he visibly enjoys sharing his insider views, including many revelations about the great champions. Timman’s Titans not only presents a personal view of these chess giants, but is also an evocation of countless fascinating episodes in chess history. Each portrait is completed by a rich selection of illustrative games, annotated in the author’s trademark lucid style. Always to the point, sharp and with crystal-clear explanations, Timman shows the highs and lows from the games of the champions, including the most memorable games he himself played against them.
Download or read book Kasparov How His Predecessors Misled Him About Chess written by Tibor Karolyi and published by Batsford Books. This book was released on 2014-03-03 with total page 485 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over the past few years the great chess player Garry Kasparov has written five best-selling books praising the contributions to chess made by the previous world champions. The series is called ''My Great Predecessors''. As a reaction to this wonderful series of books, leading chess writer Tibor Károlyi has written this imaginary sixth volume. In gently humorous – but chessically serious – style, the author imagines Kasparov is annotating over 70 of his own lost games, and blaming all these defeats on the bad influence of each of the previous world champions, providing in-depth analysis to show how he was misled by them. The book also serves as a highly instructive, practical chess book – to beat Kasparov, the greatest player of all time, took some pretty special chess, and readers will enjoy learning from this. It is astonishing how the author has managed to find so many games that exhibit uncanny similarities between Kasparov and his predecessors, which makes the content of the book extremely plausible – as if Kasparov himself were writing it. This is a brilliant and totally original chess book that could only have been written by someone with great knowledge of Kasparov and the past world champions.
Download or read book Anthology Botvinnik Smyslov Tal Petrosian Spassky Fischer written by and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Zurich International Chess Tournament 1953 written by David Bronstein and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2013-04-15 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Perceptive coverage of all 210 games from the legendary tournament, which featured Smyslov, Keres, Reshevsky, Petrosian, and 11 others, including the author. Suitable for players at all levels. Algebraic notation. 352 diagrams.
Download or read book Counterplay written by Prof. Robert R. Desjarlais and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2011-03-22 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Chess gets a hold of some people, like a virus or a drug," writes Robert Desjarlais in this absorbing book. Drawing on his lifelong fascination with the game, Desjarlais guides readers into the world of twenty-first-century chess to help us understand its unique pleasures and challenges, and to advance a new "anthropology of passion." Immersing us directly in chess’s intricate culture, he interweaves small dramas, closely observed details, illuminating insights, colorful anecdotes, and unforgettable biographical sketches to elucidate the game and to reveal what goes on in the minds of experienced players when they face off over the board. Counterplay offers a compelling take on the intrigues of chess and shows how themes of play, beauty, competition, addiction, fanciful cognition, and intersubjective engagement shape the lives of those who take up this most captivating of games.
Download or read book Achieving the Aim written by Mikhail Moiseevich Botvinnik and published by Pergamon. This book was released on 1981 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Smart Chip From St Petersburg written by Genna Sosonko and published by New In Chess. This book was released on 2014-06-06 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Genna Sosonko paints portraits of players, both famous and forgotten, from the golden age of Soviet chess, as well as highly personal views on the psychology of the game and its players. This volume radiates the author's love and devotion to chess, yet is tempered by objectivity and detachment. It will enchant not only chess players, but all who recognize the cultural value of chess.
Download or read book Botvinnik s Best Games 1947 1970 written by Mikhail Botvinnik and published by Ishi Press. This book was released on 2012-10 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mikhail Botvinnik won the World Chess Championship in 1948 and held the title with two breaks until 1963. Botvinnik announced his retirement from chess in 1970. This book covers the entire period when Botvinnik waa World Chess Champion. Of the great postwar chess players, one figure stands out above all others - the Soviet grandmaster, Mikhail Botvinnik. With the exception of two one-year interludes this dedicated electrical engineer was world champion for fifteen years - from 1948 to 1963; on the second occasion that he regained his title - from Tal - he was in his fiftieth year. It was not, however, until 1970 that he announced his "official retirement" from international competition. "Chess." wrote Botvinnik, "is an art which illustrates the beauty of logic." He could not abide errors which spoiled the beauty of the game, and the secret of his success was thorough preparation and routine, which fully justified his own self-confidence - and which were systematically adopted by the Soviet school. In controlled positional play, Botvinnik was an incomparable virtuoso - as Bronstein, Smyslov, and Tal, among many others, discovered. Above all, he was a perfectionist. Prefaced by a short biography, this volume - the first ever published in English presents over 100 of Botvinnik's best games over the period 1947 to 1970. Nearly all the annotations are by Botvinnik himself, and they reveal the qualities that won him the champion's title. Botvinnik's Best Games is, perhaps, the outstanding collection of the decade.
