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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 Karolyi 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.
Anatoly Karpov is one of the greatest ever Chess World Champions
with his greatest strength being the subtle maneuvering of his
positional play. Many of his opponents were baffled by the
profundity of his strategies, but in this book award-winning author
Tibor Karolyi explains Karpovs genius. Karolyi has selected Karpovs
most entertaining and instructive strategic wins from 1986-2009
when Karpov was battling with his young rival Garry Kasparov for
chess supremacy. It was during this period, at Linares 1994, that
Karpov achieved what statistics show to be the finest ever
tournament performance.
Genius in the Background introduces brilliant chess that will be
unfamiliar to even well-read chessplayers. Twelve chess stars are
profiled with examples of their greatest achievements, but these
stars are not famous they are geniuses who stay in the background.
For example, Pervakov and Afek are not household names but they
compose chess studies and puzzles of such elegance and cleverness
that they deserve to be famous. Top players such as Garry Kasparov
and Veselin Topalov may be famous names to chess fans, but they did
not become World Champions without great help two of their coaches
are profiled in this book and provide insights into the education
of a chess champion. A broad range of chess is covered by the
twelve profiles from openings to endgames, puzzles to training. The
common thread is beauty and brilliance that deserves to be better
known.
Anatoly Karpov is one of the greatest ever Chess World Champions
with his greatest strength being the subtle maneuvering of his
positional play. Many of his opponents were baffled by the
profundity of his strategies, but in this book award-winning author
Tibor Karolyi explains Karpovs genius. Karolyi has selected Karpovs
most entertaining and instructive strategic wins from 1961-1985
when Karpov was proving he was a worthy successor to the title
vacated by Bobby Fischers retirement.
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