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The Candidates' Tournament of 1959 was one of the most dramatic and
exciting of all tournaments, launching the flamboyant Grandmaster
Mikhail Tal on his road to become the youngest-ever World Champion.
Keres played possibly the best chess of his career at this event,
restraining his natural attacking flair in the service of a more
universal style, able to turn out finely honed strategic campaigns
and subtle endgames. His three(!) victories over Tal in this
tournament must have made him believe he could take the champion's
crown, if he finished first... It was also notable for the arrival
on the world's stage of Bobby Fischer, already twice USA champion
and World Championship Candidate at 15 years of age. Several of his
contests from this tournament appeared in his magisterialc
ollection of 'Memorable Games', including an extraordinary game
with four queens on the board against future Champion Petrosian,
who was for once tempted out of his legendary caution into a rich
and strange chess environment. In fact, it can be said that
Fischer's games decided the tournament, because of his lop-sided
scores against the two top-finishing players, and his near-miss in
the penultimate round against Tal. Other players included the
former Champion Smyslov, who brushed Tal aside in the very first
game of the tournament; and Gligori, the Yugoslav Champion, fresh
from his great result at the Interzonal, who handed Smyslov the
shortest defeat of the Russian's career in front of an appreciative
home crowd. Benkoe, the recent emigre, riding the wave of his fine
performance in the qualifying tournament at Portoroz, and Olafsson,
the quiet Icelandic wizard, added to the drama with their frequent
excursions into time trouble... This collection of games is
undoubtedly one of the finest of modern times, claims the author in
his introduction from 1960. This claim still stands after nearly 50
years, and many of the games have been printed since in collections
of brilliancies, best games and instructional books. The book has
been set in this enhanced digital edition by David Regis. Diagrams
have been added before many critical points in the games, so that
readers wishing to test their skills against the best in the world
from that time can use this volume as a puzzle book. Golombek's
innovative index of middlegame and endgame themes makes this
overlooked book a real manual of practical chessplay.
All too often chess openings books consist of reams of variations
and sub-variations and bracketed sub-sub-variations, with no
apparent explanation for why a move is chosen or why one path
deserves precedence over another. Golombek fought tenaciously
against this denigration of his art, for he considered chess an art
form. The Grandmaster Emeritus always sought to explain the ideas
behind the moves and give the strategic justification for any
course of action. For this reason alone Golombek's chief openings
manual, reprinted here, will outlive the ephemera which largely
characterise rival efforts to explain the entire gamut of openings
available to the ambitious player. Armed with Golombek you will
understand what you are doing -not just become a performing monkey
which apes the movements of the masters!
In 1966 and 1969 Tigran Petrosian and Boris Spassky contested two
epic battles for the world crown. In the first of these Petrosian
became the only world champion to actually win a title defence for
32 years when his inspired defensive technique thwarted all of
Spassky's aggressive intentions. In the second of these two
ferocious fights Spassky eventually broke through to seize the
world title. En route the two great players created some of the
most beautiful chess ever witnessed at this high level, sparkling
with numerous sacrifices of rook for bishop or knight, piece
sacrifices to inaugurate enduring attacks and even a stunning queen
sacrifice by Petrosian in game 10 of the first encounter.
Translated by Harry Golombek. Superb guide to neglected area of chess. Two formidable grandmasters cover attacking the king, defense, importance of pawn structure, analysis, much more. Authoritative introduction by Harry Golombek. Belongs in the library of every serious chess enthusiast. Indexes of players and middle-game themes.
The world chess championship between Boris Spassky and Bobby
Fischer at Reykjavik in 1972 was the most widely publicised and
eagerly analysed beforehand of any chess match to date. It seized
the attention of the world's press and media in general in
unprecedented fashion and inspired more books and column inches
than any chess contest before or since. Hardinge Simpole now
commemorate this stellar chess clash by reprinting the eye witness
accounts by Grandmaster Emeritus Harry Golombek OBE and Professor
George Steiner. Grandmaster Golombek analyses the moves while
Professor Steiner searches for the meaning behind the circus. To
top it all, Arthur Koestler, one of the keenest intellects of the
20th century, adds an introduction to complete a remarkable tour de
force of intellectual exegesis of a great turning point in world
chess.
Richard Reti (1889-1929) was both a master player and a superb
endgame composer. He was also a prominent member of the
hyper-modern school and author of two of the greatest chess books
ever written, Masters of the Chessboard and Modern Ideas in Chess.
His games, which greatly influenced chess strat egy, are known for
their many innovations, beautifully developed combinations, and
important advances in opening play and strategy. There are 70 games
in this book, selected from all stages of Reti's career. Early
games show the budding of Reti's almost phenomenal positional
skills and his rise to status of great master with first prize wins
at Kaschau and the international tournament of Gothenburg, 1920.
There are many games from the tournaments of 1922, during the
development of the Reti and the English openings including
Reti-Rubinstein 1923, Reti-Becker 1923, Reti - Bogolyubov 1924, and
his stunning defeat of Capablanca in 1924. The games from 1925 to
his premature death in 1929 show his further development and number
among them many which made the chess world sit up and take notice.
Fifteen of Reti's most interesting composed endgames are also
included. There is a short memoir and expert annotation by Harry
Golombek. For this edition Raymond Keene has written a new
Introduction.
A companion volume to Larry Evans's selection from the 1960's, this
book takes the story of the best games of the top players from the
beginnning of the 20th century up to 1940. This volume is arranged
chronologically and reaches the period of the Second World War. The
games by such immortals as Capablanca, Alekhine, Lasker, Botvinnik,
Nimzowitsch and Rubinstein are annotated with the customary
lucidity, authority and elegance synonymous with Golombek.
Jose Capablanca was a phenomenon who burst onto the chess world and
took top prize in the first ever elite tournament in which he
participated. This was at San Sebastian - otherwise known as
Donostia - in the Basque country of Spain in 1911. Capablanca's
style was serene - no position seemed to trouble him, and he
crushed most of the established European grandmasters with
seemingly little effort. Only against the mighty Lasker did he
experience serious problems. Then in 1921 Capa - as he was known -
obliterated Lasker in their world title match and took the
championship without losing a single game. Other triumphs followed,
such as London 1922, and Capablanca acquired the legend of an
invincible superman when he went for 8 years without losing a game
His supreme moment was in New York 1927 - a quadruple round trial
of strength between Capa himself Alekhine, Nimzowitsch and three
other contenders for the crown. Capa whitewashed the field,
creating a fresh masterpiece practically every day. Possibly this
easy victory left him over-confident for later the same year he
lost his world title to Alekhine.
It is well known and researched, that deprivation of oxygen to the
brain can quickly result in irreversible damage and death. What is
less well known, is that some vertebrate species are exceptionally
tolerant of brain hypoxia. This text discusses the mechanisms of
brain hypoxia tolerance in these exceptional vertebrates, which
include diving marine mammals, high altitude dwellers and the
hibernating mammal. Special attention is given to the extraordinary
adaptations that allow a few turtle and fish species to tolerate
months of brain anoxia.
Morphy, Charousek, Pillsbury, Fischer... the history of chess is
illuminated by shooting stars who burn briefly across the chess
firmament, only to vanish without trace. The parabolic career of
the Latvian genius Mikhail Tal conforms all too well to this
astonishing pattern. As a virtually unknown student in 1957 Tal
swept aside the revered phalanxes of Soviet Grandmasters and
ultimately annihilated the Red Czar of Soviet chess himself -
Mikhail Botvinnik - all within a mere three year period.
A first hand account of the strengths and weaknesses, of the genius
and foibles, of the world's elite, graced by the most elegant
prose, courtesy of Stahlberg, improved, if anything, by Harry
Golombek's superb translation. The book is full of telling and
memorable phrases.
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