Upcoming Chess Books
December 3, 2020
My Chess Stories
By Vlastimil Hort
Hardcover, 176 pages
Nava Publishing, 2020
In English
Publisher’s Blurb
In this book Vlastimil Hort talks about his personal experiences and encounters in the chess world. A long stay in hospital when he was five years old and a caring doctor who explained the chess rules to him were the beginning of his great passion.
Today, at the age of 76, he can look back on a turbulent and successful chess life. He has participated in tournaments almost all over the world - some of them still legendary today, such as the match »USSR against the rest of the world« At his peak he was among the ten best chess players in the world.
With his unmistakable Bohemian talent for storytelling, he now gives a lively insight behind the scenes of the chess world in 64 stories - sometimes with amusement, sometimes with nostalgia, but always entertainingly and to the point.
The Author
Vlastimil Hort (*1944 in Kladno) is a Czech-German chess grandmaster. After studying economics he decided to pursue a professional chess career in 1968, after the Soviet occupation. He emigrated to Germany in 1985. Hort won the Czechoslovakian chess championships six times and was the German chess champion three times. In his career he has won more than 80 international tournaments.
For 22 years he hosted a popular chess show in German television together with Helmut Pfleger. His humorous contributions are still very well remembered by chess aficionados today.
Contents
1 You’re a free man!
2 The clou
3 Yo se!
4 A duel
5 Tibor Kendelenyi alias Ctibor Kende
6 Silver Spoons
7 A new Star was born
8 Bronstein didn’t win a single game
9 Fallen off the chair
10 Brawlers
11 Waterlogged Rat
12 One Step Forward
13 In Najdorf’s Footsteps
14 A costly affair
15 Who’s Right
16 Colleagues
17 The Czech Engine
18 O Christmas Tree
19 Veni, vidi, vidi
20 Chess companions
21 Toadstools
22 The Good Soldier Svejk
23 Orangutan
24 Dreamers don’t sin
25 A magnetic night
26 The Troublemaker
27 No answer is also an answer
28 Last round a la Bronstein
29 Troyka
30 Tailor’s trap
31 Adjourned
32 A Case of Cash
33 A Case for Sherlock Holmes
34 A Chess Love
35 Good News – Bad News
36 Croatian wisdom
37 Tap, tap from Heaven Above
38 How to be a Blockhead
39 Kerem szepen
40 I’ll check them all
41 Little Round of Poker
42 Vyjezdni dolozka
43 Deep View
44 Much Ado about Nothing
45 A hairdresser never forgets!
46 Who did it?
47 Denial
48 Two Czechs – One Idea
49 From Saul to Paul
50 Earthquake
51 Survival Guide
52 Free Press
53 Visiting the Tals in Troisdorf
54 How to learn French
55 Gellert furdo 1993
56 Fresh start. Green Hornet
57 Sushi
58 Outstanding Invoice
59 King’s Gambit a la Spassky
60 It’s never too late
61 Nonsense
62 Lady in Black
63 Mea culpa?
64 Force majeure
Index
See the review of the German version:
Meine Schachgeschichten (2019)
https://forum.chesstalk.com/forum/ch...ss-books/page3
Teasers
From Chapter 21 Toadstools
The deep forests of Slavonia are a mushroom-collector’s paradise. I learned collecting mushrooms as a seven-year-old from my father. After the war mushrooms were an essential food-stock for survival in my home town. Necessity turned into a passion in later times. The forest is my home.
The chef of the hotel Kunjevci was pleased with my findings and added deliciously prepared porcini mushrooms to my menu. The mushroom season was in full swing, just as the tournament in Vinkovci 1967. Around noon was my time to go to the mushrooms. On one of these occasions I met Bobby Fischer at the exit door. “Yes, I’m going to collect mushrooms. Will you join me?” He turned on his heels and was back in a few minutes. I checked his equipment – good shoes, a jackknife and a large basket. Everything was in order.
From Chapter 53 Visiting the Tals in Troisdorf
I rang the bell at a well-known door at a bungalow in Troisdorf. “Please come forward, Vlastimil”, I was greeted warmly and Tal’s wife Engelina led me to a comfy living room. “Mischa will be with you in a minute.”
Shortly afterwards he appeared, the ingenious world champion, as always with a cigarette sticking out of the corner of his mouth. When we shook hands, I noticed the tremor. We all knew. Mischa needed his alcohol level. Before he could start the day, he needed a mug of strong coffee. Nobody mentioned that half of it consisted of Johnnie Walker.
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Upcoming Chess Books
November 28, 2020
Chess Board Options: A Memoir of Players, Games and Engines
by Larry Kaufman
Paperback, 208 pages
New in Chess, 2021
Publisher’s Blurb
Larry Kaufman can safely be called an exceptional chess grandmaster. He started out as a prodigy, however not in chess but as a whizz kid in science and math. He excels at Shogi (Japanese chess) and Go, and is also a world-famous computer programmer and a highly successful option trader. Remarkably, as a chess player he only peaked at the weirdly late age of fifty.
Yet his victories in the chess arena are considerable. Over a career span of nearly sixty years Kaufman won the state championships of Massachusetts, Maryland, Florida, Virginia, D.C. and Pennsylvania. He was an American Open Champion and won the U.S. Senior Championship as well as the World Senior Championship.
‘Never a great chess player’ himself (his words), he met or played chess greats such as Bobby Fischer, Bent Larsen, Walter Browne, Boris Spassky, Viktor Kortchnoi and many others. He worked as a second to legendary grandmaster Roman Dzindzichashvili, and coached three talented youngsters to become International Master, one of them his son Raymond.
This engrossing memoir is rife with stories and anecdotes about dozens of famous and not-so-famous chess players. You will learn about neural networks, material values and how being a chess master helps when trading options. And find lots of memorable but little-known annotated games.
The Author
Larry Kaufman is an American Grandmaster. He has been involved in computer chess since 1967, when he worked on ‘MacHack’, the first computer that competed in tournaments with human players. More recently he has been working on the programs Rybka and Komodo. His book ‘Kaufman’s New Repertoire for Black and White’ is an acclaimed bestseller.
See also:
https://www.chessprogramming.org/Larry_Kaufman
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Upcoming Chess Books
November 19, 2020
Listing of the games in Timman’s Triumphs (continued)
- - - Game White Black Event/Date - - - 31 Timman Hubner Tilburg 1980 32 Karpov Timman Buenos Aires 1980 33 Gheorghiu Timman La Valletta ol 1980 34 Timman Torre Wijk aan Zee 1981 35 Taimanov Timman Wijk aan Zee 1981 36 Timman Andersson Wijk aan Zee 1981 37 Timman Seirawan Las Palmas 1981 38 Timman Kortchnoi Las Palmas 1981 39 Timman Tal Wijk aan Zee 1982 40 Karpov Timman Mar del Plata 1982 41 Timman Torre Tilburg 1982 42 Timman Geller Linares 1983 43 Timman Spassky Hilversum KRO m 1983 44 Kovacevic Timman Bugojno 1984 45 Timman Smyslov Bugojno 1984 46* Nikolic Timman Amsterdam 1984 47 Timman Kurajica Reggio Emilia 1984 48 Speelman Timman Taxco izt 1985 49 Polugaevsky Timman Tilburg 1985 50 Timman Short Montpellier ct 1985 51 Spassky Timman Montpellier ct 1985 52* Timman Jussupow Bugojno 1986 53* Timman Sosonko Hilversum ch-NED 1987 54 Timman Zapata Amsterdam 1987 55* Timman Ljubojevic Tilburg 1987 56* Timman Short Belgrade 1987 57 Ljubojevic Timman Hilversum m 1987 58 Timman Andersson Reykjavik 1988 59 Gulko Timman Linares 1989 60 Arnason Timman Brussels tt 1989 61 Timman Salov Rotterdam 1989 62* Jussupow Timman Belgrade 1989 63 Kamsky Timman Tilburg 1990 64 Gurevich Timman Linares 1991 65* Kortchnoi Timman Brussels 1991 66* Short Timman Linares 1992 67* Timman Karpov Linares 1993 68* Karpov Timman NED/INA Wch m 1993 69 Timman Ivanchuk Amsterdam 1994 70 Benjamin Timman Amsterdam 1994 71 Timman Khalifman Amsterdam 1995 72 Timman Piket Amsterdam 1995 73 Rozentalls Timman Yerevan ol 1996 74 Sokolov Timman Amsterdam ch-NED playoff 1996 75 Akesson Timman Malmo 1997 - - - Game White Black Event/Date - - - 76 Timman Van Wely Breda m 1998 77 Kasimdzhanov Timman Wijk aan Zee 1999 78 Timman Topalov Dortmund 1999 79 Timman Polgar, J. Hoogeveen 1999 80 Timman Karpov Hoogeveen 1999 81 Timman Svidler Bugojno 1999 82 Timman Gurevich Ger. Bundesliga 1999/2000 83 Lputian Timman Wijk aan Zee 2000 84 Timman Van Wely Wijk aan Zee 2000 85 Timman Brynell Ger. Bundesliga 2000/2001 86 Nyback Timman Reykjavik 2001 87 Dreev Timman Wijk aan Zee 2002 88 Bologan Timman Wijk aan Zee 2004 89 Nikolic Timman Netherlands tt 2003/2004 90 Timman Kuzubov Gothenburg Ech tt 2005 91 Shirov Timman Karlsbad 2007 92 Timman Kortchnoi Wijk aan Zee 2008 93 Rasulov Timman Baku 2008 94 Timman Edouard Antwerp 2011 95 Timman Van der Wiel Antwerp 2011 96 Timman Ernst Wijk aan Zee 2012 97 Timman Duda Wijk aan Zee 2014 98 Van Foreest, J. Timman Hoogeveen m 2015 99 Timman Feygin Ger. Bundesliga 2018/2019 100 Bartel Timman Ger. Bundesliga 2018/2019 - - - - - Leave a comment:
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Upcoming Chess Books
November 19, 2020
Timman’s Triumphs
My 100 Best Games
By Jan Timman
Paperback, 352 pages
New in Chess, 2020
Publisher’s Blurb
Jan Timman is one of the greatest chess players never to win the world title. For many years ‘the Best of the West’ belonged to the chess elite, collecting quite a few super tournament victories. Three times Timman was a Candidate for the World Championship and his peak in the world rankings was second place, in 1982.
For this definitive collection, Timman has revisited his career and subjected his finest efforts to fresh analysis supported by modern technology. The result is startling and fascinating. From the games that he chose for his Timman’s Selected Games (1994, also published as Chess the Adventurous Way), only 10(!) made the cut. Some games that he had been proud of turned out to be flawed, others that he remembered as messy were actually well played.
Timman’s Triumphs includes wins against great players such as Karpov, Kasparov, Kortchnoi, Smyslov, Tal, Spassky, Bronstein, Larsen and Topalov. The annotations are in the author’s trademark lucid style, a happy mix of colourful background information and sharp, crystal-clear explanations.
Once again Jan Timman shows that he is not only one of the best players the game has seen, but also as one of the best chess analysts and writers.
The Author
Jan Timman is the author of highly acclaimed books such as Curacao 1962 and The Art of the Endgame. His best-selling Timman’s Titans won the 2017 English Chess Federation Book of the Year Award. His previous book, The Longest Game, is a riveting account of the epic rivalry between Garry Kasparov and Anatoly Karpov.
Reviews
“This is magnificent. The book is dotted with fascinating anecdotes. Jan Timman’s games reflect his adventurous outlook on life. He plays in a swashbuckling style, but always underpinned with a great strategic and positional sense. In this book you will find great positional wins and fantastic attacking chess. Timman is absolutely fearless, always prepared to sacrifice material for the initiative and for the attack. But he also enjoys the beauty in chess. The games are mainly described in words, with variations given only when things get critical.” -- GM Daniel King, Power Play Chess
“Jan Timman takes the readers on a fascinating journey through more than 50 years from the good old days to modern computer times. But his play is the same: always fighting and creative. A worthy successor to Timman’s Titans.” -- GM Karsten Muller, author of ‘Bobby Fischer: The Career and Complete Games’
“All the games are being deeply analysed and Jan Timman is very good at that, as he already showed in his previous books. The richness of variations, the complexity of choices, the balance between calculation and intuition, it’s all there. The book refers marginally to the background and the setting of the fights, the main focus is on the games themselves. Again a beautiful book by Jan.” -- IM Hans Bohm, De Telegraaf
“A new and splendid book by Jan Timman. Once again he shows his ability to reveal in deep analysis the hidden truth in the games. Of course, in between the games there is ample room for fascinating history and anecdotes.” -- Bab Wilders, Nederlands Dagblad
“Just out and a candidate for chess book of the year. There is an abundance of new material, for example eighteen games form the 21st century. Every game is put in its context, often with a funny anecdote.” -- GM Dimitri Reinderman, Noord-Hollands Dagblad
“Recounts the career of the best player in the West for much of the 1970s and 80s. This volume includes 100 of Jan Timman’s greatest games with instructive commentary accompanied by many interesting stories. This is a book that belongs in the library of every chess player.” -- IM John Donaldson
Games
The 100 games from the book are listed on the next pages.
If there is an asterisk (*) by the number, that means that that game also appeared in Timman’s Chess the Adventurous Way. That book had 80 games from 1983 to 1994.
Frankly, these two books would be an asset to any chess library.- - Games in Timman's Triumphs - - - Game White Black Event/Date - - - 1 Vadasz Timman Groningen 1967 2 Timman Prins Amsterdam 1970 3 De La Prida Timman Madrid 1971 4 Adorjan Timman Amsterdam 1971 5 Browne Timman Stockholm 1971 6 Portisch Timman Wijk aan Zee 1972 7 Timman Ljubojevic Wijk aan Zee 1972 8 Timman Padevsky Amsterdam 1972 9 Rytov Timman Tallinn 1973 10 Timman Andersson Tallinn 1973 11 Mihaljcisin Timman Banja Luka 1974 12 Liberzon Timman Netanya 1975 13 Timman Bronstein Teesside 1975 14 Petursson Timman Reykjavik 1976 15 Timman Najdorf Haifa ol 1976 16 Hubner Timman Bad Lauterberg 1977 17 Timman Miles Elvetham NED-ENG 1977 18 Timman Karpov Bugojno 1978 19 Timman Ribli Niksic 1978 20 Timman Dzindzichashvili Amsterdam Ech tt qual 1978 21 Radulov Timman Buenos Aires ol 1978 22 Timman Hort Montreal 1979 23 Vaganian Timman Rio de Janeiro izt 1979 24 Ree Timman Wijk aan Zee 1980 25 Timman Byrne, R. Wijk aan Zee 1980 26 Scheeren Timman Leeuwarden ch-NED 1980 27 Browne Timman London 1980 28 Polugaevsky Timman Bugojno1980 29 Timman Hort Amsterdam 1980 30 Larsen Timman Amsterdam 1980 - - - Last edited by Wayne Komer; Thursday, 19th November, 2020, 10:25 PM.Leave a comment:
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Over the years, I've had the pleasure of working a few matches where John Donaldson was Captain-ing, and the man was total class, never flustered, always reasonable, friendly, etc.Originally posted by Ken MacDonald View PostLeave a comment:
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Upcoming Chess Books
November 18, 2020
Bobby Fischer and His World: The Man, the Player, the Riddle, and the Colorful Characters Who Surrounded Him
By John Donaldson
Silman-James Pr, 2020
Paperback, 645 pages
Publisher’s Blurb
IM Donaldson examines Fischer's life and career from his days as a child prodigy through the height of his World Championship triumph and into his tumultuous final years. Donaldson's meticulous research has uncovered previously lost games and a wealth of unknown material about Fischer ranging from his close friendships with players and supporters to his acrimonious relationships with organizers, journalists, lawyers, and publishers.
Bobby Fischer and His World is brought to life through a potpourri of first-hand accounts, interviews, letters, and articles by and about the colorful characters that inhabited Fischer's world. Unifying this wide-ranging tale are over 100 photos and illustrations and 99 newly annotated games.
This is the story of Fischer the man and the player, shedding new light on the riddle of the most famous chessplayer in history.
The Author
International Master John Donaldson is a player, a chess journalist and historian, and U.S. Olympiad team captain.
Kindle Editions by John Donaldson
A Legend on the Road: Bobby Fischer's 1964 Simultaneous Tour: 3rd edition - greatly enlarged
Collected Annotations and Articles by Bobby Fischer
Bobby Fischer in Action: Simultaneous Exhibitions and Blitz Games
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John Donaldson and Jesse Kraai talk about the new book
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AEm8unB18EI
John also says that he has a second volume sequel, 80% completed.
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Upcoming Chess Books
November 18, 2020
How to beat Magnus Carlsen: Exploring the Most Difficult Challenge in Chess
By Cyrus Lakdawala
Paperback, 304 pages
New in Chess, 2020
Publisher’s Blurb
Magnus Carlsen is arguably the strongest player of all time. His dominance is such that every loss comes as a shock. They remind us that even he has his weak moments. In fact, identifying the root causes of his losses holds valuable lessons for all players.
Cyrus Lakdawala’s search starts with a series of Magnus wins and draws to give the reader a feel for how incredibly difficult it is to beat him. The World Champion’s arsenal is awesome: a superlative ability to calculate, near-perfect intuition, probably the best endgame technique ever, a wide and creative opening repertoire, a willingness to unbalance the position almost anytime, and last but not least: his unparalleled will to win.
How to Beat Magnus Carlsen has a thematic structure, which, together with Lakdawala’s uniquely accessible style, makes its lessons easy to digest. Sometimes even Magnus gets outplayed, sometimes he over-presses and goes over the cliff’s edge, and sometimes he fails to find the correct plan. And yes, even Magnus Carlsen commits straightforward blunders. Lakdawala explains the how and the why.
It’s wonderful to have a World Champion who is not just incredibly strong, but who is also happy to experiment and take risks. That’s what makes Magnus Carlsen such a fascinating chess player. And that’s why he is the hero of this book. There is no doubt that Carlsen has examined all his losses under a microscope. If he benefits from this process, then so will we.
The Author
Cyrus Lakdawala is an International Master who lives in San Diego, CA. He has been teaching chess for four decades and is a prolific and widely read author. Much acclaimed books of his are How Ulf Beats Black, Clinch It! and Winning Ugly in Chess. He twice won the Best Instructional Book Award of the Chess Journalists of America (CJA), in 2017 for Chess for Hawks and in 2020 for In the Zone: The Greatest Winning Streaks in Chess History.
Comments
Edmar Mednis wrote several “How to beat” books:
How to beat Bobby Fischer
Quadrangle, 1974
282 pages
How to beat the Russians
McKay, 1978
297 pages
How to defeat a superior opponent
Summit, 1989
312 pages
Famously, Peter Svidler has said that he read and reread the Russian translation of How to beat Bobby Fischer (1981) Kak pobeždali Bobbi Fišera.
Raymond Keene has two such books:
How to beat Gary Kasparov
Batsford, 1990
192 pages
How to beat your chess computer (with David Levy)
Batsford, 1991
104 pages
I am not sure how much closer you are to beating one of the titled opponents after reading these books.
There is a book which just gives the games a player lost, which seems rather odd, until you realize that Capablanca just didn’t lose that many:
Capablancas samtliche Verlustpartien
By Fritz Gorschen
Flensburger Schachklubs 1876 e.V., 1951
16 pages
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Upcoming Chess Books
November 16, 2020
Magnus Carlsen: 60 Memorable Games
By Andrew Soltis
Paperback, 384 pages
Batsford 2020
Publisher’s Blurb
Following on from the long success of one of the most important chess books ever written, Bobby Fischer: My 60 Memorable Games, renowned chess writer Andrew Soltis delivers a book on today’s blockbuster chess player Magnus Carlsen.
Magnus Carlsen has been the world’s number one player for more than a decade, has won more super-tournaments than anyone ever and is still in his prime. He is the only player to repeatedly win the world championships in classical, speed and blitz chess formats. This book details his remarkable rise and how he acquired the crucial skills of 21st-century grandmaster chess
He will defend his world championship title this autumn and if he wins, it will set a record of five championship match victories. This book take you through how he wins by analysing 60 of the games that made him who he is, describing the intricacies behind his and his opponent’s strategies, the tactical justification of moves and the psychological battle in each one.
This book is essential for chess enthusiasts, competitors and professionals of all skill sets.
The Author
International Grandmaster Andrew Soltis is chess correspondent for the New York Post and a very popular chess writer. He is the author of many books including What it Takes to Become a Chess Master, Studying Chess Made Easy and David Vs Goliath Chess.Other Recent Magnus Carlsen Books- - - Games from 60 Memorable Games - - - - 1 Carlsen - Harestad Copenhagen 2003 2 Zimmerman - Carlsen Schwarzacher Open 2003 3 Carlsen - Laqua Schwarzacher Open 2003 4 Carlsen - Diamant Halkidiki 2003 5 Carlsen - Stefansson Aeroflot Festival, Moscow 2004 6 Djurhuus - Carlsen Norwegian Championship 2005 7 Carlsen - Predrag Nikolic Wijk aan Zee 2005 8 Brynell - Carlsen Gausdal Bygger'n Masters 2005 9 Jobava - Carlsen Skanderborg 2005 10 Carlsen - Vescovi Wijk aan Zee 2006 11 Agdestein - Carlsen Norwegian Championship 2006 12 Carlsen - Nunn Youth vs Experience, Amsterdam 2006 13 Carlsen - Ivanchuk Morelia-Linares 2007 14 Carlsen - Aronian Candidates Match, Elista 2007 15 Mamedyarov - Carlsen Wijk aan Zee 2008 16 Topalov - Carlsen Morelia-Linares 2008 17 Kramnik - Carlsen Wijk aan Zee 2008 18 Carlsen - Grischuk Linares 2009 19 Anand - Carlsen Melody Amber (blindfold), Nice 2009 20 Carlsen - Topalov Sofia 2009 21 Carlsen - Leko Nanjing 2009 22 Aronian - Carlsen Melody Amber (blindfold), Nice 2010 23 Carlsen - Bacrot Nanjing 2010 24 Smeets - Carlsen Wijk aan Zee 2011 25 Carlsen - Nakamura Medias 2011 26 Carlsen - Gelfand Tal Memorial, Moscow 2011 27 Carlsen - Nakamura Wijk aan Zee 2011 28 Radjabov - Carlsen Moscow 2012 29 Carlsen - Caruana Sao Paulo 2012 30 Carlsen - Anand Sao Paulo 2012 31 Carlsen - Judit Polgar London 2012 32 Carlsen - Harikrishna Wijk aan Zee 2013 33 Anand - Carlsen World Championship, Chennai 2013 34 Carlsen - Caruana Shamkir 2014 35 Carlsen - Anand World Championship, Sochi 2014 36 Nakamura - Carlsen Zurich 2014 37 Carlsen - Wojtaszek Olympiad, Tromso 2014 38 Carlsen - So Sinquefield Cup, St. Louis 2015 39 Carlsen - Naiditsch Baden Baden 2015 40 Carlsen - Vachier-Lagrave Shamkir 2015 41 Carlsen - Nakamura London 2015 42 Carlsen - Li Chao Qatar Masters, Doha 2015 43 Anand - Carlsen Baden Baden 2015 44 Caruana - Carlsen Sinquefield Cup, St. Louis 2015 45 Carlsen - So Bilbao 2016 46 Carlsen - Karjakin World Championship, New York 2016 47 Karjakin - Carlsen World Championship, New York 2016 48 Carlsen - Aronian Paris Blitz 2016 49 Eljanov - Carlsen Isle of Man Masters, Douglas 2017 50 Carlsen - Ding Liren St. Louis 2017 51 Dreev - Carlsen World Cup, Tbilisi 2017 52 Carlsen - Wojtaszek Shamkir 2018 53 Adhiban - Carlsen Wijk aan Zee 2018 54 Carlsen - Jones Wijk aan Zee 2018 55 van Foreest - Carlsen Wijk aan Zee 2019 56 Carlsen - Rapport Wijk aan Zee 2019 57 Svidler - Carlsen Baden Baden 2019 58 Vachier-Lagrave - Carlsen Sinquefield Cup, St. Louis 2019 59 Giri - Carlsen Zagreb 2019 60 Firouzja - Carlsen Wijk aan Zee 2020 - -
Magnus Wins with White
By Zenon Franco
Elk and Ruby 2020
Paperback 242 pages
In Magnus Wins With White Grandmaster Zenon Franco deeply analyses 32 of Magnus Carlsen’s most instructive games where he wins with the white pieces. This book is written in “move by move” style, a good training tool containing exercises and tests. This format is a great platform for studying chess, improving both skills and knowledge, as the reader is continually challenged to find the best moves and the author provides answers to probing questions throughout.
Most of the games are taken from Magnus’s recent career, including one from 2020 and eight from 2019. His opponents are nearly all super-grandmasters, and they include former world champions Viswanathan Anand and Vladimir Kramnik, as well as Wesley So, Maxime Vachier-Lagrave, Alexander Grischuk, Levon Aronian, Boris Gelfand, and, naturally, Anish Giri. In the majority of these games, Magnus demonstrates his ability to outplay his opponents in the middlegame by simply making stronger moves and applying constant pressure that eventually forces the opponent to crack and play weaker moves. In some games, however, this takes place in the endgame.
Magnus Wins with Black
By Zenon Franco
Elk and Ruby 2020
Paperback 223 pages
In Magnus Wins With Black Grandmaster Zenon Franco deeply analyses 30 of Magnus Carlsen’s most instructive games where he wins with the black pieces. This book is written in “move by move” style, a good training tool containing exercises and tests. This format is a great platform for studying chess, improving both skills and knowledge, as the reader is continually challenged to find the best moves and the author provides answers to probing questions throughout. It is the second of two volumes written by Franco for Elk and Ruby Publishing House on the games of Magnus Carlsen. His first volume Magnus Wins With White has proved to be an international best seller.
The Author
Grandmaster and FIDE Senior Trainer Zenon Franco was born in Asuncion, Paraguay, in 1956. After living in Buenos Aires he moved to Spain, where he has lived for over 30 years. Zenon is the author of 29 chess books published in six languages and has been a regular chess columnist of the Paraguayan Hoy and ABC newspapers for the last 17 years. He also writes regularly for several chess magazines in Argentina, Italy and Spain. In 2017, he received the 2016 Isaac Boleslavsky book of the year award from the FIDE Trainers Commission. Zenon was Pan-American Champion in 1981 (San Pedro de Jujuy, Argentina). He has participated in 11 Olympiads, from Haifa, Israel, in 1976, to Batumi, Georgia, in 2018. Zenon won the individual Gold Medal for the best result on first board at the Olympiads of Lucerne, Switzerland, 1982, and Novi Sad, Yugoslavia, 1990. He also represented Spain at the 1998 Olympiad in Elista, Russia. Zenon's highest ever place in the Elo list was 66th in January 1982. As a coach, Zenon was director of the Escuela Kasparov Marcote de Galicia from 1995 to 1999. His most successful pupils include Grandmaster Francisco Vallejo Pons and IM David Martinez Martin, Spanish editor of Chess24.com. In 2016, Zenon was granted an award by the Paraguayan parliament in recognition for his invaluable and meritorious contribution to Paraguayan sport: for his chess career and for his help in the development of chess in Paraguay.
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https://www.chess.com/article/view/b...w-best-lessons review on chess.com tells a bit moreOriginally posted by Hans Jung View PostLeave a comment:
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Chronomicide: great new term!Originally posted by Stephen Wright View PostLeave a comment:
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From directing many large junior events I'm familiar with the sound in the first few minutes of a round, when they're all playing way too fast and all you can hear is clock buttons being slammed. Some time ago I coined the term chronomicide, the sound of many clocks being murdered at once ...Leave a comment:
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Thanks for reminding us of that, I ALSO absolutely LOVED dozens and dozens of clocks ticking!!Originally posted by Hans Jung View PostLeave a comment:
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" I only feel truly alive when the chess clock is ticking and the patterns of the squares in front of me are dancing in my head." H'mmm, I like the quote. (maybe thats one thing wrong with tournament chess nowadays - the clocks dont tick) Tennessee Greenbecker - quite the name. Maybe I'll give the book a try.Leave a comment:
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