THE WEEK IN CHESS 51 01/10/95 Mark Crowther
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1) Introduction
2) INTEL World Championship Match. New York
3) Bobby Fischer to present new chess rules By Roberto Alvarez
4) Timman vs Piket. The Best of the Netherlands Contest.
5) Lev Abramovich Polugaevsky 1934 - 1995
6) Brazillian National Championships
7) BOOKS, BOOKS and more of them (1) by Bertrand Weegenaar
GAMES SECTION
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Anand - Kasparov World championship Match 4 games
Piket - Timman Best in the Netherlands match 5 games
National Championships of Brazil 1995 66 games
Book Review Games 33 games
1) Introduction
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My thanks to Franz Hemmer, Bertrand Weegenaar, Roberto Alvarez
Adriano Von Pfuhl Rodrigues and Jose Alberto F. Santos. For their
help in preparing this issue and to Christoph Pfrommer for the use
of his notes to the World Championships games.
The World Championship match sprang into life this week with
three successive decisive games after 8 consecutive draws.
The games have become progressively harder to understand, I believe
that it will take a long while to understand game 12.
Bobby Fischer is likely to reappear shortly to expand on his
ideas for shuffle chess (personally I don't think there is anything
wrong with the game as it is.)
Timman is in a dominant position in his match against Piket to decide
who is the best in the Netherlands, there appears life in Jan yet after
a rough year.
I have put together a tribute to one of the finest chess Professionals
Lev Polugaevsky. In doing so I tried to compile a large list of his
tournament and match achievements. It makes impressive reading and
certainly brings home what a loss his death is. (Incidently it is
very hard to bring together such results and I hope there aren't too
many errors. It would be nice to have something akin to cricket's
Wisdon for this sort of task.)
There has been a large number of chess books produced recently and
Bertrand Weegenaar has put together a review of many of them.
(my favourites have been Sicilian Love and Bob Wade's update of
Fighting Chess)
Hope you enjoy this issue.
Mark
2) INTEL World Championship Match. New York
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1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0
Anand = = = = = = = = 1 0 0 = . . . . . . . . 5.5
Kasparov = = = = = = = = 0 1 1 = . . . . . . . . 6.5
A week that started so promisingly for Anand ended with him
fighting to stay in the match at all. The deadlock was broken
on Monday when Anand gradually ground down Kasparov in a nicely
played Sicilian Defence. For the first time Anand played 12. Bf3
rather than his previous choice of 12. Bd3. He played a very
controlled game, which obviously impressed Kasparov as he
did not allow it later in the week.
On Tuesday Kasparov struck back in emphatic manner. Almost not
a game from his point of view as he varied from game 6 with
14. Bc2 and this apparently completely busts black's setup.
There was a big shock at the start of game 11 on Thursday as
Kasparov played the Dragon Defence for the first time in my
memory (probably did play it as a junior) He chose the
Soltis Variation and White, not playing the absolutely most
critical ended up with only a minute edge. Anand pressed and
appeared to make a little progress. Kasparov played 27. ...Be6
which is even a dubious move, but Anand failed to see the best
way to continue and fell straight into a nasty trap set by Kasparov.
There are always such games in a World Title Match. Anand will hope
that Kasparov will be the next to blunder away such a position.
Game 12 has yet to be analysed in detail but Kasparov won the victory
of putting Anand's Open Ruy Lopez out of business. The variation
Anand chose is one that has been played a little in recent years
but which looks distinctly bustable. Play was extremely complex
and Anand played exceptionally well to hold the draw. My feeling
is that it will be discovered that Kasparov was close to winning
this game. I do not expect to see the variation in the match again
from Anand.
At the end of the week I think Anand can regroup, repair the damage
to his Black side opening repertoire and come out fighting. I
have seen nothing from Kasparov that suggests he is innately
superior to Anand. Anand will clearly have to work hard to guess
where Kasparov will attack his opening repertoire, but his white
side openings are very much OK. If Anand can get Kasparov to defend
his lead until the end of the match (as opposed to trying to stretch it)
he has still got excellent chances to win.
Kasparov clearly was delighted at getting a winning novelty in
game 10 and then a present of a full point in game 11 after a draw
offer. The old Kasparov would be seeking to finish the match here
and now, and we will have to see how combative his play is.
My thanks to Christoph Pfrommer for some notes to games
9-11. I have added some additional comments from other
sources + a database search where useful. Game 12 was one
of the most complex games in the series so far. I will
hopefully get idea what the assessment of this games is
from discussions later in the week. My impression is that
Kasparov missed the chance to shut out the match in this
game and that Anand played very well to hold.
Anand,V - Kasparov,G [B85]
New York PCA-Wch (09), 1995
[Pfrommer,Christoph]
1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 d6 3.d4 cxd4 4.Nxd4 Nf6 5.Nc3 a6 6.Be2 e6 7.0-0 Be7 8.a4 Nc6
9.Be3 0-0 10.f4 Qc7 11.Kh1 Re8 12.Bf3 Bd7
Kasparov used to prefer 12...Rb8
instead of 12...Bb7 during his match against Karpov in Moscow 1985. But
the famous 24th game of the match was the last time Kasparov played the
12...Rb8.
[12...Rb8 13.Qd2 Bd7 14.Nb3 b6 15.g4 Bc8 16.g5 Nd7 17.Qf2 Bf8 18.
Bg2 Bb7 19.Rad1 g6 20.Bc1 Rbc8 21.Rd3 Nb4 22.Rh3 Bg7 23.Be3 Re7 24.Kg1
Rce8 25.Rd1 f5 26.gxf6 Nxf6 27.Rg3 Rf7 28.Bxb6 Qb8 29.Be3 Nh5 30.Rg4 Nf6
31.Rh4 g5 32.fxg5 Ng4 33.Qd2 Nxe3 34.Qxe3 Nxc2 35.Qb6 Ba8 36.Rxd6 Rb7 37.
Qxa6 Rxb3 38.Rxe6 Rxb2 39.Qc4 Kh8 40.e5 Qa7+ 41.Kh1 Bxg2+ 42.Kxg2 Nd4+ 0-1
Karpov,An-Kasparov,G/Wch Moscow (24) 1985.]
13.Nb3 Na5 14.Nxa5 Qxa5 15.Qd3
Rad8
That's the way Kasparov played already in 1988 against John Van der
Wiel.
16.Rfd1
The move is said to be a recommendation of Van der Wiel. In
Kasparov's annotations to the 1988 game he doesn't mention the move. This
is where Anand's preperation begins. Anand now puts his hope on Queens
side pressure. 16. g4 was tried in the game Van der Wiel - Polugaevsky
in 1989.
[16.Qd2 Rc8 17.e5 dxe5 18.fxe5 Qxe5 19.Bxb7 Rcd8 20.Bf4 Qa5
21.Qe2 Bc8 22.Bc6 Rf8 23.Bf3 Qb4 24.Bc7 Rd7 25.Be5 Bb7 26.a5 Rfd8 27.Ra4
Bxf3 28.Qxf3 Qc5 29.Bxf6 gxf6 30.Rh4 f5 31.Rh3 Qc4 32.g4 f4 33.g5 Rd4 34.
Rf2 Bxg5 35.Qg4 f6 36.Rhf3 Kh8 37.Rg2 Rd2 38.h4 Rxg2 39.Kxg2 Bh6 40.Kh3
Rg8 41.Qh5 Qc6 42.Kh2 Bf8 43.Rf2 f5 44.Qe2 Rg4 0-1 van der Wiel,J-Kasparov,
G/Amsterdam/1988]
16...Bc6 17.b4! Qc7
[17...Qxb4?? 18.Rdb1 Qa5 19.Bb6+-]
18.b5 Bd7 19.Rab1
[19.Ne2 Rc8 20.bxa6 bxa6 21.Qxa6 Ra8 22.Qd3 Rxa4 23.Rxa4 Bxa4
24.Nc3 Bc6 25.Nb5 Bxb5 26.Qxb5 Rb8 27.Qa4 Rc8 28.Rd2 Nd7 29.Qd4 Rb8
30.g3 Nb6 31.Be2 Qc6 1/2-1/2 Cuijpers, Frans-Andre-De Boer,
Gert-Jan/Ch Netherlands Hilversum (Netherlands) 1988]
axb5?!
[19...Rc8 20.bxa6 (20.Rb3 axb5 21.Nxb5 Qxc2 22.Nxd6 Bxd6 23.
Qxc2 Rxc2 24.Rxd6 Bxa4 25.Rxb7 Bc6=) 20...bxa6 21.Rb3 Rb8 (21...Qc4 ?! 22.Be2
Qxd3 23.Bxd3) 22.Rdb1 Rxb3 23.Rxb3 Rb8 24.Rxb8+ Qxb8 25.Qxa6 Qb2 26.Qc4 Qxc2
These lines maybe offer Gary better chances for equality.]
20.Nxb5 Bxb5?!
Speelman gives this as dubious. 20. ...Qa5 is given as an interesting
alternative. 21. Nxd6 Bxa4 22. Bb6 (22. e5!?) 22. ...Rxd6 then
not 23. Qxd6 Bxd6 24. Bxa5 Bxf4! with good drawing chances for Black
but:
23. Bxa5 Rxd3 24. cxd3 Bxd1 25. Bxd1 when white is on top.
21.Qxb5!
[21.Rxb5 Rc8 (21...Ra8 22.Qb3) 22.e5 dxe5 23.Rxb7 Qxc2 24.fxe5 Nd5 25.
Qxc2 Rxc2 26.Bxd5 exd5 27.Rxd5 also comes into consideration.]
21...Ra8
[21. ...Qxc2 loses the Queen]
22.c4 e5
[To stop e5 from white which was a threat.]
23.Bb6 Qc8 24.fxe5 dxe5 25.a5 Bf8?
[25...Bd8! Seirawan 26.Qxe8+ Nxe8 27.Rxd8 Qxd8
28.Bxd8 Rxd8 29.Rxb7 Ra8 30.Rb5 Nd6 31.Rc5 f6 probably still equalizing.]
26.h3 Qe6 27.Rd5!! Nxd5?
This is a difficult decision. Anand's passed pawns soon become too strong.
However Anand was delighted by the decision almost begging Kasparov
to take the exchange. Kasparov is now busted.
[27...Rac8 28.Rbd1 g6 (28. ...Qc6 29. Rxe5 Rxe5 30. Qxe5 Qxc4 31. Qd4! with
e5 to follow) 29.c5 Qc6 30.Qb2 Black has no
counterplay, since the Bb6 restricts the Black rooks.]
28.exd5 Qg6? [28...Qf5 is putting up more resistance (Anand).
However after 29. Bg4! (29. c5 e4 30. Be2 Qxd5 is poor) Qg6
30. c5 is very strong]
29.c5
+- Anand
29...e4 30.Be2 Re5 31.Qd7 Rg5 32.Rg1 e3 33.d6 Rg3 34.Qxb7 Qe6
[One last thing to pay attention to. 35. Rf1 Rb8 36. Qxb8? (Qxc6 keeps
some chances) leads to perpetual.]
35.Kh2 1-0
Anand was delighted to get off the mark in this game as it is some
years since he has beaten Kasparov.
Kasparov,G - Anand,V [C80]
New York PCA-Wch (10), 1995
[Pfrommer,Christoph]
1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bb5 a6 4.Ba4 Nf6 5.0-0 Nxe4 6.d4 b5 7.Bb3 d5 8.dxe5
Be6 9.Nbd2 Nc5 10.c3 d4 11.Ng5 dxc3 12.Nxe6 fxe6 13.bxc3 Qd3 14.Bc2!
[14.Nf3 0-0-0 15.Qe1 This was played in the 6th game of this match.]
14...Qxc3 15.Nb3! This rook sacrifice seems to guarantee a strong attack.
Kasparov: "This game was won basically at home." 15...Nxb3
[15...Rd8!? 16.Bd2 Qxe5 17.Re1 Qd5 18.Qg4 Ne5 19.Qh5+ Nf7 20.Qh3 e5 21.
Rad1 with excellent attacking chances for White.]
16.Bxb3 Nd4
[16...Qxa1 looked better to me, but I learned from some analysis by
german GM Knaak, that White still breaks through with his attack: 17.
Qh5+! g6 18.Qf3 Nd8 (18...0-0-0? 19.Qxc6 Qxe5 20.Qxa6+ Kb8 21.Be3+-) 19.
Qf6! Knaak (19.Qxa8 is less clear.) 19...Rg8 20.Bxe6 Rg7 21.Ba3 Qxf1+ 22.
Kxf1 Bxa3 23.Bd5+-]
17.Qg4! Qxa1 18.Bxe6 Rd8
[18...Qc3 19.Bd7+ Kf7 20.Be3 Bc5 21.e6+ Kg8 22.e7 g6 23.Qe4 Ne2+ 24.Kh1
Kf7 25.Qd5+ Kg7 26.Bxc5 Qf6 27.Re1 Qc3 28.Qd1 Qxc5 29.Qxe2 Rhe8 30.Qb2+
Kh6 31.Re3 Qd6 32.Rh3+ Kg5 33.Qc1+ Kf6 34.Qa1+ Kg5 35.Rxh7 Rxe7 36.h4+
Kf4 37.Rxe7 Qxe7 38.Qd4+ Qe4 39.Qf6+ winning. A lengthy variation, but
outlinging a possible way to attack the unprotected black king.]
19.Bh6 Qc3 20.Bxg7 Qd3 21.Bxh8 +- Up to here Kasparov simply had to follow
his home preparation. 21...Qg6 The resulting endgame is easily won by
Kasparov. He just has to show a grandmaster's routine in the endgame.
[21...Ne2+ 22.Kh1 Ng3+ 23.hxg3 Qxf1+ 24.Kh2 Qd3 25.Bf5 Qc4 26.Qh3 Qf7 27.
e6 Qg8 28.Bf6 Be7 29.Bxh7 Qf8 30.Bg6+ is mating in 2 moves.]
22.Bf6 Be7
[22...Qxg4 23.Bxg4 Rd5 24.f4 c5 25.f5 c4 26.Bh5+ Kd7 27.Re1 Kc6 28.e6
The White pair of bishops excellently supports the advancing central
passed pawns.]
23.Bxe7 Qxg4 24.Bxg4 Kxe7 25.Rc1 c6 26.f4 a5 27.Kf2 a4 28.Ke3 b4 29.Bd1 a3
30.g4 Rd5 31.Rc4 c5 32.Ke4 Rd8 33.Rxc5 Ne6 34.Rd5 Rc8 35.f5 Rc4+ 36.Ke3
Nc5 37.g5 Rc1 38.Rd6 1-0
Anand,V - Kasparov,G [B78]
New York PCA-Wch (11), 1995
[Pfrommer,C]
1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 d6 3.d4 cxd4 4.Nxd4 Nf6 5.Nc3 g6 6.Be3 Bg7 7.f3 0-0
8.Qd2 Nc6 9.Bc4 Bd7 10.0-0-0 Ne5 11.Bb3 Rc8 12.h4 h5 13.Kb1 Nc4
14.Bxc4 Rxc4 15.Nde2 b5 16.Bh6 Qa5
[16. ...b4 has been played here
17.Bxg7
[17.Bg5 b4 18.Nd5 Nxd5 19.
Qxd5 Rc5 20.Qd3 Be6 21.Nc1 Qa4 22.Bxe7 Rfc8 23.Rd2 Bc3 24.Bxd6 Bxa2+ 25.
Nxa2 Ra5 26.Kc1 Qxa2 27.Kd1 Qxb2 28.Bf4 Bxd2 29.Kxd2 Rc3 1-0 Suetin,
Alexey S-Szabo, L/Ch URS, 15 Ch Leningrad (Russia) 1967]
Kxg7 18.Nf4
This is all known in theory, I assume, but maybe someone might
indicate what the main line is.
[18.g4?! b4 19.Nd5 Nxd5 20.exd5 Rfc8 21.Rc1 Qc5 22.gxh5 Bf5
White can't launch an attack that easily.]
18...Rfc8 19.Ncd5 Qxd2
[19...b4!? Has this move been tried in any game before?
A) 20.Nxf6 exf6 21.Rc1
(21.Qxd6? Ba4 22.b3 Rxc2 23.bxa4 Qxa4 24.Qd5 R8c4-+)
21...R8c6 22.Qd3
(22.Qd5 R4c5 23.Qb3 Ra6 24.Rhd1 Ba4 25.Qe3 Bb5
Black wins by attacking the weak spot on a2.)
22...R4c5 23.Nd5 Be6 24.Rhd1 Bxd5 25.exd5 Ra6 26.Qb3 Qa4
27.Qxa4 Rxa4 intending Raa5 or Rca5.;
B) 20.Nxe7!? Rxc2 21.Qxd6 Where are the Black attacking chances?]
20.Rxd2
Here, Anand declined a draw offer from Kasparov.
20...Nxd5 21.Nxd5
This ending is probably slightly better for White due to
the strong knight on d5.
21...Kf8 22.Re1 Rb8 23.b3 Rc5 24.Nf4 Rbc8 25.Kb2
[25.e5?! Bf5 26.exd6 exd6 27.Ree2 White has not more of
the game any longer.]
25...a5 26.a3 Kg7 27.Nd5 Be6?!
Kasparov should explain to me why he sacrificed the pawn on e7
here. In my opinion the quiet positional manoeuvers would have
brought success to Anand if now he had taken on e7. Question:
Was Kasparov playing that risky only to set the trap of 28.b4??
28.b4??
Put two (or more) question marks here. :-(
Really a bad oversight from the Challenger...
instead, 28.Nxe7 should have worked far better!
[28.Nxe7 Re8 29.b4! axb4 30.axb4 Rc4 31.Nd5
A) 31...Rec8 32.c3! (32.Ree2 Bxd5 33.Rxd5 Rxb4+ 34.Kc1)
32...Bxd5 33.Rxd5 Rxc3 34.Re2 winning the pawn on b5.;
B) 31...Ra8 32.c3 Rc6 33.Ra1 Maybe other moves are even stronger,
but the (single) rook ending looks promising. 33...Rxa1 34.Kxa1 Bxd5
35.Rxd5 Rxc3 36.Kb2 Re3 37.Rxb5 Re2+ 38.Kc3 Rxg2 39.Rd5;
C) 31...Bxd5 32.Rxd5 Rxb4+ 33.Kc3 Rc4+ 34.Kb3 Rec8 35.Re2 White
is going to win a pawn on b5 or d6. Admittedly, a win is still
far away but not impossible.]
28...axb4 29.axb4 Rc4 30.Nb6 Rxb4+ 31.Ka3 Rxc2
[31...Rxc2 32.Rxc2 Rb3+ 33.Ka2 Re3+ 34.Kb2 Rxe1-+]
0-1
Kasparov, G (2795) - Anand, V (2725)
PCA wc final New York (12), 1995
1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bb5 a6 4.Ba4 Nf6 5.0-0 b5 6.Bb3 Bc5
[6...Bb7 7.d3 Bc5 8.Nc3 d6 9.a4 Na5 10.Ba2 c6 11.Bd2 0-0 12.Ne2 bxa4 13.
Qe1 Bb6 14.b4 axb3 15.Bb1 Nc4 16.dxc4 b2 17.Ra2 Nxe4 18.Rxb2 a5 19.Nc3
Nxd2 20.Qxd2 Ba6 21.Ba2 Bc7 22.Qe3 a4 23.Rd1 Qe7 24.Nxa4 Bxc4 25.Bxc4
Rxa4 26.Bf1 d5 27.g3 Bd6 28.c4 Ra3 29.Qe2 dxc4 30.Rc2 e4 31.Nd4 Savon,
Vladimir A-Bronstein, David I/Ch URS (1 liga), 42 Ch Odessa (Ukraine)
1974/1/2-1/2 (41)]
7.a4 Bb7 8.d3 d6 9.Nc3 b4 10.Nd5
[10.Ne2 0-0 (10...Na5 11.Ba2 Rb8 12.Ng3 Bc8 13.d4 exd4 14.Nxd4 0-0 15.Bg5
h6 16.Bf4 Bxd4 17.Qxd4 b3 18.Bxb3 Nxb3 19.cxb3 Rxb3 20.Rac1 1/2-1/2
Rodriguez Amador-Diaz J/It (open) Mexico 1991; 10...Qd7 11.Ng3 g6 12.c3
h6 13.d4 Bb6 14.d5 Na5 15.Ba2 b3 16.Bxb3 Nxb3 17.Qxb3 a5 18.c4 Rb8 19.
Be3 Ba6 20.Qc3 Qe7 21.c5 Bxc5 22.Bxc5 Bxf1 23.Ba3 Ba6 24.Qc6+ Nd7 25.
Qxa6 Nb6 26.b3 0-0 27.Qxa5 f5 28.Qc3 fxe4 29.Nxe4 Rf4 30.Qd3 Qf7 31.Bc1
Nxd5 32.Bxf4 Nxf4 33.Qc2 Rxb3 34.a5 Rb7 35.a6 Ra7 36.Qb2 d5 37.Qb8+ 1-0
Sorokin, Maxim-Slipak, Sergio/It (open), II-III Lomas de Zamora
(Argentina) (7) 1995) 11.Ng3 Rb8 12.Be3 Bxe3 13.fxe3 Na5 14.Ba2 c5 15.Nd2
Bc8 16.Nh5 Ng4 17.Qf3 Qg5 18.Bxf7+ Kh8 19.Qg3 Qxe3+ 20.Qxe3 Nxe3 21.Rf2
g6 22.Ng3 Nxc2 23.Rc1 Nd4 24.Nc4 Nxc4 25.Bxc4 Rxf2 26.Kxf2 Nc6 27.Ke3
Kg7 28.Rf1 Nd8 29.Ne2 Ra8 30.Bd5 Ra7 31.Nc1 Bd7 32.a5 Bc6 33.Nb3 Bxd5
34.exd5 Nf7 Lerner, Konstantin Z-Morozevich, Alexandr/It, X Podolsk
(Russia) 1993/0-1 (73)]
10...Na5
[10...h6 11.a5 0-0 12.c3 Rb8 13.Bd2 bxc3 14.bxc3 Ba7 15.Be3 Bc8 16.Nxf6+
Qxf6 17.Bd5 Bxe3 18.fxe3 Na7 19.Rb1 Rxb1 20.Qxb1 c6 21.Ba2 Nb5 22.Qb2
c5 23.Bc4 Bd7 24.Qb3 Qd8 25.Bxf7+ Kh8 26.c4 Nc3 27.Qxc3 Rxf7 28.Nd2
Rxf1+ 29.Nxf1 Qb8 30.Nd2 Ba4 31.Kf2 Qd8 32.Nf3 Bd1 33.Qd2 Bxf3 34.gxf3
Qh4+ 35.Kg2 Qg5+ 36.Kf1 Qh4 37.f4 Qh3+ 38.Kg1 1/2-1/2 Timman, Jan H-Bareev,
Evgeny/It \ Wijk aan Zee (Netherlands) (3) 1995]
11.Nxf6+ Qxf6 12.Ba2 h6
This move seems new.
[12...Bc8 13.Bg5 Qg6 14.Be3 Bg4 15.Bxc5 Bxf3 16.Qxf3 dxc5 17.Qe3 Qd6 18.
f4 0-0 19.fxe5 Qxe5 20.Rab1 Rae8 21.Rf3 c4 22.dxc4 c5 23.Qf2 g6 24.Rf1
Re7 25.Rf6 Nb7 26.Rxa6 Nd6 27.Qf6 Qxf6 28.Rxf6 Nxe4 29.Rf1 Nd2 30.Ra1
f5 31.Rd6 Re2 32.Rd3 f4 33.Rd1 Ne4 34.Bb3 g5 35.Kf1 Rf2+ 36.Kg1 Re2 37.
h3 Adams, Michael-Lin, Weiguo/Ch World (juniors) (under 20), IX-X
Adelaide (Australia) (6) 1988/0-1 (66)]
13.c3 bxc3 14.bxc3 0-0 15.Be3 Rad8 16.Rb1 Bc8 17.Qe2 Be6 18.h3 Bxa2 19.
Qxa2 Bxe3 20.fxe3 Qe6 21.Qxe6
[It has been suggested that 21. Qd5 is good here. It may be that
Black can cope with the offside knight in this position. 21. c4 may
also be a move.]
fxe6 22.Rb4 Rb8 23.Rfb1 Nc6 24.Rb7 Rbc8 25.
Kf2 Rf7 26.Ke2 Rcf8 27.d4 g5 28.Kd3 Rg7 29.d5 exd5 30.exd5 g4 31.dxc6 e4+
32.Kxe4 gxf3 33.gxf3 Re7+ 34.Kd4 Rxf3 35.e4 Rxh3 36.Rxc7 Rxc7 37.Rb8+ Kf7
38.Rb7 Re7 39.c7 Rxc7 40.Rxc7+ Ke6 41.Ra7 h5 42.Rxa6 Rh1 43.Ra8 h4 1/2-1/2
3) Bobby Fischer to present new chess rules By Roberto Alvarez
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Bobby Fischer will present worldwide his NEW chess rules in Merlo City (San
Luis, Argentina) on November 13, 1995.
Fischer has visited Argentina in 1959 (3rd/4th at Mar del Plata tournament,
Buenos Aires 1960, Buenos Aires 1970 and match Fischer-Petrosian, Buenos
Aires 1971).
From November 14 to December 30, 1995 will take place a tournament or match
between GM Lajos Portish (HUN) and GM Eugene Torre (PHI) using these rules.
This tournament will be transmitted around the world using INTERNET.
Also on November 11 (nearly, to be confirmed) will take place in
Merlo an strong international open tournament. (normal rules)
4) Timman vs Piket. The Best of the Netherlands Contest.
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Jan Timman leads Jeroen Piket 4.5 - 2.5 in a best of ten contest
between the two leading players from the Netherlands.
5) Lev Abramovich Polugaevsky 1934 - 1995
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Born: 20th November 1934 Mogilev (Belarus)
Died: 30th August 1995 Paris (France)
Lev Polugaevsky died in Paris after a two year illness (I believe
some sort of brain tumour) on the 30th August in Paris. He was a man
who kept himself very fit and to suffer in this way was cruel luck.
Lev Polugaevsky was born in Mogilev in Belarus in 1934. In 1941 Mogilev
was bombarded by German troops and Polugaevsky was evacuated to Kuybishev.
(he was lucky to survive this journey as a large part of the train was
distroyed by German bombing.)
He learned chess in Kuybishev at the age of 10 and progressed to Candidate
Master level by the age of 15. His first trainer Alexey Ivashin an
experienced Master and Champion of Kuybishev. However it was another player
who probably had the greatest influence on Lev Polugaevsky's early career.
IM Lev Aronin started visiting his brother, who lived in Kuybishev, and
this started a ten year collaboration which probably shaped Polugaevsky's
career. Another player from whom the young Polugaevsky learned was Rashid
Nezhmetdinov one of the most gifted, yet unpractical players of all time.
Aronin was to work with Polugaevsky for 10 years (until he left to work
with Spassky). He was a specialist in the Najdorf variation of the
Sicilian. It was under his influence that Polugaevsky took up this opening
and gradually abandoned other defences (early on he played both 1. ...e5 and
the French.). After stopping working with Aronin, Polugaevsky didn't have
a second until the early 1970's. He then began to work with one of the
most brilliant trainers of all time, Isaac Boleslavsky. It was he who
convinced Polugaevsky of his ability to become one of the best players
in the World. He moved at some time during the 1960's to Moscow.
It would be wrong to say that Polugaevsky was obsessed with chess. He
also had a fascination with mathamatics. This lead him to enter Kuybushev
Engineering College and become a Thermodynamics Engineer. He lead a
dual career both as an Engineer and as a chessplayer until 1973 when he
became a Candidate for the first time. He managed to do this largely due
to Botvinnik. Botvinnik was very friendly with Dmitri Gemerin, one time
Soviet Energy Minister and after a fall out with Khrushchev director of
the energy institute in Moscow. Also he was a keen chess fan. The influence
of Gemerin meant that Polugaevsky could get the length of time necessary to
both prepare and play in tournaments during this time.
In a career from the early 1950's to the early 1990's Lev earned the
reputation as the consumate professional. Excellent preparation and
calculative abilities were the watchwords of his career.
Probably the two major factors that held Polugaevsky back were
his mixed engineering and chess career until he was nearly 40 years
old and his really dreadful nerves, especially during the World Championship
cycle. In spite of these bad nerves one can see from his career record
that he was a high finisher in a large number of the tournaments he played
in. (I have put all the results I could find in the listing and there
isn't a truely aweful one.) He was outclassed in his Candidates matches
with Karpov (3 losses and no reply in 1974) and Korchnoi in 1977. But this is
no particular disgrace, Indeed he lost only marginally to Korchnoi in 1980.
His victories over Henrique Mecking and Mikhail
Tal in the Candidates were performances of the highest class.
In the early 1990's Polugaevsky decided to leave the Soviet Union.
Although Israel was an option he decided to move to France. He
had already coached Lautier and his wife also spoke French.
But it is probably as a theoretician and write he is best remembered. In particular
he was known as a brilliant exponant of the Sicilian. His own variation
of the Silician Najdorf was virtually a personal Odessey and the reasoning
that lead him to develop it and the exciting battles he had in keeping
the variations alive after the whole line appeared refuted are outlined
in his most famous book "Grandmaster Preparation" (Pergamon Press 1981
although it has appeared in other languages and the key chapters were
published in Russian firstly in 1977.) Just before his death a new edition
of the book was produced called "Grandmaster Achievement".
The line: 1. e4 c5 2. Nf3 d6 3. d4 cxd4 4. Nxd4 Nf6 5. Nc3 a6 6. Bg5 e6
7. f4 b5 became known as the Polugaevsky Variation. It was first
played in the game Reicher-Krogius Ploesti 1957 and then researched
by Polugaevsky and Shaposhnikov (another master from Kuybishev).
Polugaevsky first played it in early 1959 in the 26th USSR Championships.
Gradually the variation was moulded into a system of play by Polugaevsky
(his says that at one time he spent every day for 6 months examining the
system.) and the variation rightly has his name.
He recently produced an excellent 2 Volume work on the Sicilian Defence
called the "Sicilian Labyrinth" Pergamon Press 1991.
"Sicilian Love" NIC 1995 was his last book produced in conjuction
with Jeroen Piket and Christophe Geuneau this is both a tribute
to Polugaevsky's career playing the Sicilian and a record of the
Buenos Aires 1994 Sicilian Theme tournament which was arranged to
celebrate Polugaevsky's 60th birthday and in which he was supposed
to participate. Indeed he spent a long time especially
preparing for the event from early 1993 until his sad illness. It obviously
pained him very much to miss out on playing in his own personal event.
It is a tribute to the personal qualities and enjoyment he has given to a
certain generation of chess players that this event was organised at all.
He also wrote a number of other opening monograph's including :
Queen's Gambit: Orthodox Defence (Batsford) 1988.
Polugaevsky will be remembered as a very fine chessplayer whose
theoretical preparation was amongst the very best, who had accute
calculative abilities, particularly in his early career, and as a
man not to turn down a challange, especially in the Sicilian Defence.
A consumate professional, whose career record was probably much better
than people remember nowdays.
Career
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International Master 1961
Grandmaster 1962.
World Championship Candidate 3 times:
1974 lost to Karpov (-3 =5)
1977 beat Mecking (+1 =11) lost to Korchnoi (-5=7+1)
1980 (beat Tal (+3 =5) lost to Korchnoi (-3 =9 +2).
International Team Competitions.
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Olympiads
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Havana 1966, Lugano 1968, Siegen 1970, Buenos-Aires 1978, Valetta 1980
Lucerne 1982, Thessaloniki 1984
European Team
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Oberhausen 1961, Kapfenberg 1970, Moscow 1977, Skara 1980, Haifa 1989
USSR vs The Rest of the World
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1970 and 1984.
A Selective list of tournament results.
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23rd USSR Champs Leningrad 1956 5th= 10.5/17
24th USSR Champs 1/2 final Tbilisi 1956 8th= 10.5/19
25th USSR Champs 1/2 final Sverdlovsk 1957 2nd= 12 /19
25th USSR Champs Riga 1958 5th= 10.5/18
RFSFR Champs Sochi 1958 2nd= 12 /19
26th USSR Champs Tbilisi 1959 6th 11 /19
International Marianske Lazne 1st
27th USSR Champs Leningrad 1960 5th 11.5/19
Central Chess Club Ch. Moscow 1960 6th 5 /11
USSR Team Champs Moscow 1960 1st Bd 1 71%
28th USSR Champs Moscow 1961 7th= 10.5/19
29th USSR Champs Baku 1961 2nd
International Mar del Plata 1st 11.5/15
International Havana 1962 2nd=
International Bad Liebenstein 1963 1st=
International Sochi 1963 1st 7.5/11
USSR Spartakiad Moscow 1963 5th Bd 1 56%
31st USSR Champs Leningrad 1963 7th= 11/19
International Sarajevo 1964 1st=
International Budapest 1965 1st= 11/15
33rd USSR Champs Tallinn 1965 2nd 13.5/19
International Beverwijk 1966 1st 11.5/15
International Sochi 1966 2nd 11/15
USSR Team Champs Moscow 1966 3rd Bd 2 6.5/10
34th USSR Champs Tblisi 1966-7 8th= 10.5/20
International Moscow 1967 1st=
35th USSR Champs Kharkov 1967 1st=
International Skopje 1968 3rd
36th USSR Champs Alma Ata 1968-9 1st 12.5/19
36th USSR Ch. Pl.off A Zaitsev Vladimir 1969 WON
International Buesum 1969 2nd
37th USSR Champs Moscow 1969 1st= 14/22
37th USSR Ch. Pl.off Petrosian Moscow 1970 LOST 3.5 - 1.5
International Mar del Plata 1971 1st
39th USSR Champs Leningrad 1971 7th= 11.5/21
International Amsterdam 1972 1st 12/15
International Kislovodsk 1972 1st
International Palma de Mallorca 1972 5th= 9/15
InterZonal Petropolis 1973 2nd= 11.5/17
International Tallinn 1973 2nd
41st USSR Champs Moscow 1973 2nd= 10.5/17
42nd USSR Champs Leningrad 1974 3rd= 9/15
International Solingen 1974 1st= 10/14
International Sochi 1974 1st 11/15
43rd USSR Champs Erevan 1975 6th 8.5/15
International Budapest 1975 1st= 10.5/15
International Montilla 1975 1st=
International Manila 1975 2nd=
44th USSR Champs Moscow 1976 3rd= 10.5/17
International Vinkovci 1976 3rd=
International Sochi 1976 1st=
InterZonal Manila 1976 2nd= 12.5/19
45th USSR Champs Leningrad 1977 3rd= 9/15
International Lone Pine 1978 2nd
46th USSR Champs Tblisi 3rd=
International Wijk aan Zee 1979 1st 7.5/11
InterZonal Riga 1979 2nd
International Moscow 1981 2nd= 7.5/13
International Sochi 1981 2nd
International Mar del Plata 1982 3rd=
International Bugojno 1982 2nd= 8/13
International Manila 1982 1st=
InterZonal Toluca 1982 4th=
50th USSR Champs Moscow 1983 3rd=
InterZonal Biel 1985 7th
International Biel 1986 1st
International Sarajevo 1987 2nd=
International Termas de Rio Hondo 1987 3rd=
International Haninge 1988 1st
International Akureyi 1988 2nd
International Biel 1989 2nd
International Open Reykjavik 1990 1st
International Reggio Emilia 1991 2nd
Match v Judit Polgar Aruba 1991 WIN 5-3
International Reggio Emilia 1992 5th=
International Aruba 1992 1st
ELO Ratings
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Here are Polugaevsky's appearances in the top six in
the World according to the ELO rating list.
6th= Polugaevsky 2630 Jan 1971
6th= Polugaevsky 2640 Jul 1971
3rd= Polugaevsky 2645 Jul 1972
4th= Polugaevsky 2645 Jan 1975
3rd= Polugaevsky 2635 Jan 1976
6th= Polugaevsky 2620 Jan 1977
5th= Polugaevsky 2625 Jan 1979
5th Polugaevsky 2635 Jan 1980
5th= Polugaevsky 2625 Jan 1983
5th= Polugaevsky 2620 Jul 1983
6th Polugaevsky 2625 Jul 1984
His final rating (based on games played in 1993) was still
2585.
He had an excellent career record against many strong players.
Geller +9 =19 -4
Tal +8 =19 -2
Taimanov +5 =17 -2
Smyslov +3 =16 -3
Spassky +2 =15 -2
Gligoric +8 =11 -1
Mecking +3 =14 -0
Bronstein +4 = 6 -4
Larsen +3 = 7 -3
Keres +2 = 5 -1
(Source Warriors of the Mind by Keene and Divinsky)
In balance he didn't manage to beat Karpov or Kasparov and had a
large negative score (mostly due to Candidates matches)
against Korchnoi.
Bibliography:
Sicilian Love.- NIC 1995 by Polugaevsky, Piket and Gueneau
(this contained some very interesting biographical information used in the
article and is a beautifully produced book)
The Oxford Companion to Chess by Whyld and Hooper Oxford 1977
Warriors of the Mind .- Keene and Devinsky .-Harding and Simpole 1989
The Sicilian Labyrinth by Lev Polugaevsky Vol 1+2 Pergamon Press 1991
Grandmaster Preparation by Lev Polugaevsky Pergamon Press 1981
6) Brazillian National Championships
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My thanks to Franz Hemmer and Roberto Alvarez for help in sorting out the
games. My thanks to Adriano Von Pfuhl Rodrigues and Jose Alberto F. Santos
for supplying them.
Brasilia (BRA), VII 1995.
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1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2
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1 Milos, Gilberto g BRA 2555 * 1 0 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 10.0 2716
2 Van Riemsdijk, Herman C m BRA 2370 0 * = = 1 1 1 1 1 1 = 1 8.5 2561
3 Lima, Darcy m BRA 2475 1 = * 1 = = = 1 = 1 = 1 8.0 2507
4 Sunye Neto, Jaime g BRA 2510 0 = 0 * 1 = 1 1 1 = 1 1 7.5 2464
5 Disconzi da Silva, Rodrigo f BRA 2380 0 0 = 0 * = = = 1 1 1 1 6.0 2367
6 Matsuura, Everaldo f BRA 2415 0 0 = = = * = = = 1 1 1 6.0 2364
7 Loureiro, Luiz BRA 2375 0 0 = 0 = = * 1 = 1 = = 5.0 2332
8 Agdamus, Jose Luis BRA 2280 0 0 0 0 = = 0 * 1 = = 1 4.0 2228
9 Limp, Eduardo BRA 2325 0 0 = 0 0 = = 0 * = 1 1 4.0 2224
10 Cukier, Marcelo BRA 2150 0 0 0 = 0 0 0 = = * 1 1 3.5 2197
11 Prates, Fabiano BRA 2220 0 = = 0 0 0 = = 0 0 * 1 3.0 2143
12 De Souza,AF ---- 0 0 0 0 0 0 = 0 0 0 0 * 0.5 1898
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7) BOOKS, BOOKS and more of them (1) by Bertrand Weegenaar
-------------------------------------------------------
Lately I started several columns in Week in Chess, including one on
Correspondence Chess. As editor of Schaakschakeringen (Netherlands) I receive
monthly a large amount of freshly printed chessbooks, of which I do a short (and
sometimes when interesting a larger) review. To share my experiences (and
probably make some publisher happy as well, (but a bad unnecessary chess book
will still be called a bad and unnecessary chessbook) I started this column
which I will hope to do about 2 times every month.
I start every column with a list of publishers, addresses to comment, order or
send suggestions to, and when possible I have a Internet or E-mail address as
well. I hope you find this interesting and sometimes I add a tip.
On each book I will give besides prices and opinions, amount of pages, language
and or algebraic (figurines). I some cases the book is accompanied by a disk in
some sort of database-format. At the end of the reviewpart I try to keep track
of the reviewed books, starting next column. And, this because the editor asked
for it, I try to give some interesting additional games where possible as well.
Starting a bookreview with a In Memoriam is a bit sad and maybe shouldn't be
placed here, but 31 August Lev Polugaevsky (1934 - 1995) died in Paris at the
age of 60, after a life contributed to chess in general and searching for new
unknown frontiers in the Sicilian Labyrinth in particular. This bookreview will
have two books which have connections with Polu's passing away: Sicilian Love by
Interchess, which unfortanetly was published shortly before his dead, and the
book from Europa Rochade on Leonid Stein, maybe one of the best chessplayers of
the 60's, but almost unknown to many chessplayers of the 90's.
And every time when I have them some tips to buy:
OPENING:
The Kings Indian Saemisch, J.Gallagher, Batsford because it's also a perfect
game collection
ENDGAME:
Secrets of Minor Piece Endings, John Nunn, Batsford, 1995
GAME COLLECTION:
Leonid Stein, H.Wieteck, Rochade Europa for discovering a great chessplayer from
to past with a style fitting the nineties, and in a cheap edition.
and
Taimanov's Selected Games, M.Taimanov, Cadogan because he has played great games
against the best players of the 50's and 60's
SPECIAL:
Sicilian Love, Polugaevsky, Piket and Gueneau, Interchess
and
Secrets of Spectacular Chess, Jonathan Levitt andDavid Friedgood, Batsford gives
attention to the beauty of the game in a superb and original way.
SOME INTRODUCTIONS TO THE PUBLISHERS AND AN OVERVIEW OF RECENT
PUBLISHED BOOK BY
THEM.
Batsford Ltd
4 Fitzhardinge Street
London W1H 0AH
England
E-mail: 100617.2702@Compuserve.com (Graham Burgess, managing editor)
A broad spectrum of (chess)books come from this London-publisher who has
probably the best playing typesetter in the world: GM John Nunn. Several
Batsford books are great fun because John does put critics and analyses in the
book. All Batsford-books are beautifully laid out and have figurines. In the wide
variety of books several series can be subtracted:
To the match Kasparov - Anand Batsford added two books:
Garry Kasparov's Fighting Chess, G.Kasparov, J.Speelman andB.Wade, Batsford
1995, 312 p. (ISBN 0-7134-7919-1)
Price : UK Pounds 14.99
Vishy Anand Chess Super-Talent, David Norwood, Batsford 1995, 144 p. (ISBN 0-
7134-7816-0)
Price: UK Pounds 12.99
Two total different biographies on chessplayers: the Kasparov book is 300 pages
of great/superb chess of a player yet 15 years at the top of grandmaster chess.
Maybe not the nicest and trustworthy person, but surely the strongest of them
all.
Anand probably belongs to the nicest of grandmasters at the moment, and yet to
reach his highest form. At the time this is written he just won the nineth
matchgame, and blew the Kasparov Sicilian in 30 moves. Kasparov in defence.
The Anand book gives a story told by Norwood, and is Norwoods impression of
Anand's (which is his first name) sparkling chesscarreer. A story with a lot of
nice and interesting details, and some lightly annotated games showing
remarkable points in Anand short carreer. A remarkable book, nice bedside
reading.
The Kasparov-book is a reprint and enlarged book from 1991, updated to the
Novgorod tournament of May this year, closing with the sensational Evans-gambit
wins over Piket and Anand(!).
On openings the Winning with - and Complete series can be found, and several
special occasional books as well:
Winning with the Benko, Byron Jacobs, Batsford 1995, 144p. (ISBN 0-7134-7232-4)
Price: UK Pounds 12.99
To some authors the ego is very big. They take analysis from different sources
without notifing the reader. Jacobs starts with telling his sources and gives
great credit to Fedorowicz 1990 book on the Volga-Benko: The complete Benko
Gambit. Besides the normal mainlines Jacobs give lots of attention to the
popular lines like 5.b6, 5.Nc3 and 5.f3. An excellent book and hopefully someone
updates theory in 5 years time.
The complete Vienna, M.Tseitlin andI.Glazkov, Batsford 1995, 144 p. (ISBN 0-
7134-7606-0)
Price : UK Pounds 12.99
I remember a clubplayer who played f4 always after 1.e4, against the Carokann,
and the Sicilian. He didn't play the Kings Gambit, but chose a Vienna-line and
played f4 after 2.Nc3. He scored a lot of points. Of course quiter lines like
2.Nc3 Nf6 3.Bc4 Nf6 4.d3 Bc5 or 2.Nc3 Nf6 3.g3 are possible. Tseitlin & Glazkov
discuss these lines extensively. Great players like Steinitz and Spielmann
played the Vienna. Recently it's started becoming a more practiced side-line to
the Spanish and Italian.
If you like lesser known and more romantic openings this book is a great
introduction to one of them.
The complete Benoni, Lev Psakhis, Batsford 1995, 256 p. (ISBN 0 7134 7765 2)
Price: UK Pounds 15.99
On some openings several autors are working at the same time. In 1994 Cadogan
came with a book on the Modern Benoni (Norwood, 1994).
But Psakhis is a Benoni-specialist who wrote 20 chapters full of games and new
analyses after 1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 c5 3.d5 e6. (Eco-code A60-A79), from the fianchetto
to the ultra-sharp four pawns attack.
No opening for players seeking relaxed play, but for players liking positions
where tactical and positional play go hand-in-hand.
One of the better opening books this year.
The Saemisch King's Indian, Joe Gallagher, Batsford 1995, 240 p. (ISBN 0 7134 7730 X)
Price: UK Pounds 14.99
Not only a good book on this popular and actual variation (see S1-Editrice and
Interchess as well). This book gives a superb introduction to an opening line with
which almost all great chess players from the 50's until today were playing the
White and/or Black-pieces. It is used against attacking players like Kasparov,
Tal, Stein, Shirov etc. The introduction on the book gives all to know about the
strategic, tactical and positional aspects of the variation. 56 extensive
analyses beautiful games (I'm not a 1.d4-player nor a King Indian player but I
went through them all) make this not only a opening book but a selection of
beautiful games.
See the the games Bagirov-Gufeld and Gheorghiu-Shirov.
Besides the great work of the autor, the editor (Graham Burgess) and the books
typesetter (John Nunn) have extensive experience with this variation and several
comments in the books can be seen regular as typesetter or editor's note.
The Latvian Gambit,Tony Kosten, Batsford 1995, 144 p. (ISBN 0 7134 7619 2)
Price: UK Pounds 12.99
To this book the help of Dutch CC-player and Latvian-specialist John Elburg was
asked. John Elburg organises Latvian Theme tournaments for several years and
last year the first Latvian WM started with 21 players and several CC-GM's
included. Also the contribution of Destrebecq (France) should be mentioned.
In over-the-board practice the Latvian Gambit is seldomly seem, because it has a
bad reputation. But Tony Kosten gives an introduction which should attract OTB-
players as well because the Latvian isn't as bad as it sounds and give the White
players lots to think (and worry) about.
See the game Rublevsky - Maliutin, Russia 1992 for an example.
New lines with started this year are the Algebraic Classic-series with three
great titles to start with:
Bobby Fischer My 60 Memorable Games, Batsford, 1995, 240 p.
(ISBN 0 7134 7812 8)
Price: UK Pounds 14.99
Think like a grandmaster, Alexander Kotov, Batsford, 1995, 188 p.
(ISBN 0-7134-7885-3)
Price: UK Pounds 13.99
Capablanca's 100 Best Games, Harry Golombek, Batsford, 1995,
(ISBN 0-7134-4650-X)
Price: UK Pounds 10.99
If you ever missed one of the above: now's the change to buy it in a great new
lay-out.
Also in the Think like a Chess master-series two new titles saw the light:
Planning, Neil McDonald, Batsford, 1995, 112 p. (ISBN 0 7134 7573 0)
Price: UK Pounds 7.99
Gambits, Graham Burgess, Batsford, 1995, 112.p. (ISBN 0 7134 7574 9)
Price: UK Pounds 7.99
Besides series on openings or middle game, Batsford has already almost a library
on endgame theory and technique. Very special volumes have been published this
year:
Secrets of Minor Piece Endings, John Nunn, Batsford, 1995 280 p.
(ISBN 0 71347727 X)
Price: UK Pounds 17.99
After his book on Rook Endings and Pawnless Endings this book reveals all the
secrets on Minor Piece Endings: 2 Kings, Bishop(s) or Knight(s) and a pawn.
Using modern computer techniques a lot of practical examples on elementary
Bishop and Knight endings are given with the definite endgame theory on the
subject. As the two earlier book: the basics full of beautiful movement and the
final chapter on the theory of this endings. Thanks John!
Technique for the Tournament Player, M.Dvoretsky and A.Yusupov, Batsford 1995,
240p. (ISBN 0 7134 7722 9)
Price: UK Pounds 17.99
After Training for the Tournament Player and Opening Preparation this third
volume by Dvoretsky and Yusupov puts the training of technique in the centre of
attention. 4 Chapters on several theme's pass the review with mostly practical
endgames where the analyses where tested by Dvoretsky's students. The book is of
a very high analytic level, but is also entertainfully written.
Winning Endgame Technique, A.Beliavsky andA.Mikhalchishin, Batsford 1995, 192 p.
(ISBN 0 7134 7512 9)
Price: UK Pounds 13.99
Two strong Grandmasters team-up for a book on practical endgame-technique.
Beliavsky and Mikhalchishin pair a practical and theoretical approach which
succedes very well in this book. Especially the chapters 6 to 9 on Bishop visa
Knight, Rook + Bishop visa Rook + Knight and Rook visa Bishop are deeply
analysed but readable as well.
Other chapters contain Rook - and Pawnendings.
And to finish Batsford-publications a very special book:
Secrets of Spectacular Chess, Jonathan Levitt andDavid Friedgood, Batsford,
1995, 222 p (ISBN 0 7134 7721 0)
Price: UK Pounds 14.99
This will score high in a Book of the year contest. I don't know what publishers
have in store more for this year, but can it be more surprising and entertaining
than this book? Put on your chessboard the following position:
White: Ka7, Rb7, Bg5 and pawn b3
Black: Ka5, Rd4, Bg4
A mate in 6 by T.Nissl, Akademische Monatshefte fur Schach, 1910:
1.Bh4! Rd1 2.Bg3! Rc1 3.Bf4! Rc2 4.Bg5
A "Rundlauf", where the white Bishop finishes where he started, in the meantime
outplaying the black Rook. The finish:
4...Rc8 5.Bd2+ Rc3 6.Bxc3 mate
This book describes elements of the game which make chess a devine game. What
makes the beauty of the game as we experience in fine combinations. The autors
call it paradox, depth, geometry and movement.
Hours of great beauty I've experienced with this book and it will be much more.
I can use a lot of more words to try to decribe why you ought to have this book
in your collection, but I won't. I give you a study as a last example, J.Ban
(version of P.Benko), first price, Tipografia 1961 in the chapter Tactical
Fantasies: the charm of studies:
White: Kh3, pawns d4, g6,h5
Black: Kh6, Ng8
1.d5! Nf6 2.d6 Kg7! 3.Kh2!! Kh6 4.Kg1! Kg7 5.Kf1! Kh6 6.Ke1! Kg7 7.Kd1! Kh6
8.Kc2 Kg7 9.Kb2! Kh6 10.Ka3 Kg7 11.Kb4!
and White wins the Knight as soon as his King reaches the d-pawn.
Cadogan Books
London House
Parkgate Road
London SW11 4NQ
England
Net-adress: chess@cadogan.demon.co.uk
Also distributing for Pickard&Sons, Grandmaster Publishing, Hypermodern Press
and Hays Publishing in Europe
Cadogan is one of Batsford's great competitors on the publishing market. Using
the old Pergamon fund (including work by Garry "the Great") and thereby lot's of
connections in the former USSR, it has created an interesting line of opening
books, reprints, monographies etc.
Some books that say the daylight recently:
Nimzo-indian Defence Classical Variation, I.Sokolov, Cadogan Press 1995, 148 p. (ISBN
1 85744 120 6)
Price: $17.95
The classical Nimzoindian 1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 e6 3.Nc3 Bb4 4.Qc2 has made a revival in
the 80's. In 4 chapters (4...c5; 4...d5; 4...0-0 and 4.rare lines) theory is
mixed with 70 analysed games. The accent in analysis is of course on the
openingpart of the game.
I don't really play the Nimzo, but the first sentence put my memory at work:
"Even five years ago, the classical 4.Qc2 variation in the Nimzo-Indian was a
comparative rarity." Is that true? If said in 1990 it would be correct, but
looking into recent Informators, 4.Qc2 is already starting to get out of fashion
and 4.f3 is more of a trend.
And looking to the selected games by Sokolov, more then 50% are from 1985-1990
and only 5 games are of later date. All recent games are put in analysis lines in
older games. Why?
My gamble: in 1990 under the same title GM Max Dlugy published his "definitive
study",(Chess Enterprise), a analytic very strong (but for lay-out a very poor
book, missing an index on the opening??, no full games etc.)
I think Sokolov was a bit late and put the manuscript aside, where it no came to
see the daylight at Cadogan's. Unfortunetly little has happened with this line
the last years. Maybe Sokolov started on a 4.f3-monography.
Taimanov's Selected Games, M.Taimanov, Cadogan, 1995, 198 p.
(ISBN 1-85744-155-9)
Price: $19.95
If your bored with opening theory, going through all recent games from who knowns
what tournament, this book is a relief. Taimanov was to me known from his
openingsbooks (in all great openings, the Sicilian, King and NimzoIndian there
is a system named after and practiced by him) and by his defeat to Fischer with
6-0 in 1971.
Both aspect are present in this book. Beside playing chess, Taimanov is also a
professional violin player, and autor of many chess books. He reached the
Candidates twice and played in the famous Zurich 1953. His chesstop was reached
in the 50's and 60's (what would have been his top is his only profession would
be playing chess?).
Taimanov ordered his games rather unusual: thematic with names like In the world
of Nimzowitsch's Ideas, The attack on the Uncastled King and By Technique Alone.
The following example to see what you can await is the game Stahlberg -
Taimanov, Zurich 1953, which shows a great middlegame by Taimanov, but still
did't make it to his last 60!
Two books to start your chesscarreer, or ones child, friend or whomever you like
to play the game with:
Chess for Tomorrow's Champions, J.Walker, Cadogan ,1995, 144 p.
(ISBN 1-85744-195-8)
Price : $14.95
This is a reprint from 1983, and contains a lot of humor in explaning the firts
steps in learning the game. To all lessons questions are asked for several
levels of pupils.
The many nice pictures make it especially interesting for children.
A primer of Chess, Jose Capablanca, Cadogan 1995, 150 p. (ISBN 1 85744 165 6)
Price: $15.95
A classic but still interesting for serious students. In the same serie Chess
Fundamentals was reprinted recently.
S1 Editrice
Via Porrettana 111
I-40135 Bologna
Italy
S1 Editrice is known for publishing the Correspondence Chess Yearbook 3 times a
year, which is now up to volume 13 and gives hundreds of recent correspondence
games every issue. Beside CCB it also made a large number of opening monografies
of which the following three were published recently:
Ruy Lopez Arkhangelsk System (C78), J.Konikowski, S1 Editrice, 1995, 283 p.
(ISBN 88-86127-36-7)
Price: 30.000 Lires
12 Chapters with a total of 206 analysed games give a view on a variation which
was popular in correspondence chess for a long time, but thanks to the effort of
Kamsky and Beliavsky has been seen in OTB at the highest level recently. In
contradiction to a lot of theory book, the autor uses a lot of CC examples.
Some examples see the games Arnlind-Zagorovsky, Omelchenko - Ahman and Weegenaar
- Mackie.
Queen's Gambit Accepted (D20-D29), S1 Editrice, 1995, 179 p.
(ISBN 88-86127-34-0)
Price: 26.000 Lires
Still a very popular antidote to the Queen's Gambit, two books were recently
published. To give a correspondence game example to this variation see: Mulder
v.Leens Dijkstra - Penrose
King's Indian Defence Saemisch Variation (E80-E89), M.Tirabassi e.a., S1
Editrice, 1995, 330 p. (ISBN 88-86127-35-9)
Price: 32.000 Lires
This third book in a short period (Batsford, Interchess) about this variation
contains an unbelievable lot of gamematerial: 1100 games of which most analyses.
In 6 pages the strategic ideas of the Saemisch are explaned.
Interchess
P.O.Box 3053
NL-1801 GB Alkmaar
Netherlands
E-mail: nic@xs4all.nl
WWW: http://www.xs4all.nl/~nic/
Interchess is worldwide known for its publication of New in Chess Yearbooks and
Magazine, which can be called a defacto-standard in reporting chess events
(sorry to the editor of this magazine). One of the pillars is the NIC-software
program and NIC-key to which games are clinged too. Started in 1984 it has grown
rapidly, but lately has had many competitors, and the NIC-key hasn't made it to
become the categoring standard for chess openings as the ECO-code did (used by
Informator, ChessBase etc.)
Based on its large database and included analyses, Interchess publishes many
disks on opening, players etc. Started two years ago, Interchess director Wim
Andriessen went back to its roots a little bit by starting publishing opening
booklets where the disk was attached to, but recently he started two series of
"pure" books: Opening Tactics by A.C.van der Tak and Hardcover Editions.
Sicilian Love, Polugaevsky, Piket and Gueneau, Interchess 1995,
(ISBN 90-71689-999)
Price: $35
Time sometimes plays trics on human beings, in a positive but sometimes negative
way. When chessmaecenas Joop van Oosterom started thinking about a way to
congratulate his friend Lev Polugaevsky on his 60th birthday, he couldn't
imagine that it would become one of Polugaevsky's last tournaments (beautifully
called ???) he would be present. And as was hoped for, he couldn't attend as
player because of his bad health, but only as spectator.
The publisher Interchess created one of the best tournament books of the last
decades, and published it just before Polugaevsky's dead. Thereby publishing a
seldom tribute to the man who dedicaded his life to the Sicilian, not only by
playing the game, inventing the famous Polugaevsky Variation against the
Najdorf, but by putting his soul in books like Grandmaster Preparation and the
Sicilian Labyrinth (both recently republished (and partly rewritten) by Cadogan)
Besides the very quality games and analyses by the players of the tournament
(won by Salov, a player who in advance had the least change for winning the
tournament because of his unfamelarity to the Sicilian both with White as with
Black)), it gives a history to the Sicilian and the best games Polugaevsky
played with them. It also has a now historical last large and indepth interview
with the man.
Too every player interested in chess, the Sicilian Opening and Polugaevsky, a
book not to be missed. In the games to this Books three games from Polu:
Nezjmetdinov - Polugaevsky, Grunfeld - Polugaevsky and Polugaevsky - Tal.
Other Hardcover Editions: Jan Timman Chess the adventurous Way, his best 80
attacking games from 1983 - 1994, (superb layout and cristal clear analyses) and
Finding Bobby Fischer by Dirk Jan ten Geuzendam, interviews with all leading
grandmaster from the past and present who have stories to tell and where asked
the right questions at the right time. Eventually Fischer fell for it.
Slav: Botvinnik Variation, Rini Kuijf ,Interchess 1995, 108 p.
(Book: ISBN 90-71689-80-8)
Price: $25 (book + disk, NIC-limited edition to use gamefile)
(Text in Dutch, English and German)
Sicilian: English Attack, Alexander Nikitin, Interchess 1995, 108 p. (Book: ISBN
90-71689-88-3)
Price: $25 (book + disk, NIC-limited edition to use gamefile)
(Text in Dutch, English and German)
Two ultrasharp variations which where popular to the strongest chessplayers of
the last decade. Too both booklets, playing the games from the book, which is a
selecting of the more then 600 games from the disk to give the "student" the
general ideas of the opening, is a great pleasure.
The English Attack is often an uncompromised attempt to crush the Black
kingside, which in the hand of players like Short is a fearsome weapen.
The Botvinnik creates often positions where the attacking changes by White are
balanced by Blacks' material advantages. All big K's from the last years have
been playing this Slav line, as White and/or as Black.
The booklet can be ordered without the disk, and as game-collections they are
worth your attention.
Drukkerij van Spijk
P.O.Box 210
NL-5900 AE Venlo
Netherlands
This publisher has started as printer of tournamentbooks (Groningen) and
magazines, but recently several interesting books where published. The only
"handicap": the language is Dutch.
NBC 25 year, van Spijk 1995, (ISBN 90 6216 128 6)
Price: DFL 29,75
This tournament book summes up all to be known about the Jubilea-tournament
which was held for the 25th "birthday" of the Dutch Correspondence Chess
Federation. One of the strongest CC-tournaments was held under the strict hands
of ICCF-president Henk Mostert with a strong field of international GM and IM's.
Winner was GM G.J.Timmerman, followed second by GM J.van Oosterom.
The tournamentbook gives an interesting introduction to the tournament, with
history, statistics etc. After the games with comments by the players and GM
G.van Geet, a unique openingtheoretical part by A.C.van der Tak places the
choosen opening in a historical context.
When Dutch is a problem (why?), only the intro is not of much interest, the
games part still remains very interesting.
Verlag Muedler
Lilienthalstrasse 52
D-40474 Dusseldorf
Deutschland
This German chesspublisher publishes only in German, but most books are in
figurines notation. Muedler has the curagous to publish books on themes which has
clowds hanging over it, like unorthodox openings, strange themes etc. Besides
publishing books, Muedler also publishes Gambit Revue, a quarterly magazine about
gambits.
Kurt Klar Gedenkturnier, H.Heemsoth, Muedler 1994, 119 p. (ISBN 3-925691-08-1)
Price : DM 22.80
(German and figurines)
A high quality tournament book with analyses by Herman Heemsoth and the players.
1. L.Omelschenko 11/14, 2.D.Stern 9,5 and3.G.Stertenbrink 9,5
Two games in the gamesection of this Books, Books ..: L.Omelschenko (RUS) -
Ahman and D.Smit - L.Barczay (HUN)
Schach und Schalom, Ludwig Steinkohl, Muedler 1995, 189 p. (ISBN 3-925691-1-12-X)
Price: DM 24.80
Some chessbooks are unusual because they aren't opening, biography etc. In this
book the autor presents the influence by Jewish chessplayers in the history of
chess, and also their role in todays grandmaster scene. And Steinkohl tries to
answer the question why their influence has been so extensive. Look at the list
of the following full and half-jewish worldchampions: Steinitz, Lasker,
Botvinnik, Tal, Fischer, Kasparov. Besides these names, great top players from
the past Nimzowitsch, Tarrasch and Tartakower, but also from the present have a
place in this book of biographical fragments: Gelfand, Psachis and many other
young exile-players who found their home in Israel or Amerika. Besides the life-
stories of these players, 82 games of them are presented, as a list of, to the
book, important Jewish words.
Das Mittelgambit im Nachzug, J.Konikowski and M.Gupta, Muedler 1994, 130 p.
(ISBN 3-925691-07-3)
Price: DM 28
Surprise, surprise, after 2.Nf3 most whiteplayers are prepared for 2...Nc6, Nf6
etc., but f5 (Latvian) and d5? Normally this gambit is called the
Elephantgambit.
The Elephant has all the advantages of a good gambit: open lines, quick
development and fast treats against the White King, but not the risks of the
Latvian.
The book has two parts: a theoretical and gamepart with 30 analysed "sample"-
games where Karpov-Koster (Dortmund 1993, Draw) and Tal - Lutikow (USSR 1964, 1-
0 beautiful game) deserve special attention.
In the gamepart of this article you will find three games which hopefully give
you good appetite for more: Tal-Lutikov, Jansen - de Laat and Lund - Jensen.
(To those interested: Tournament Chess has published Winning with the Elephant
Gambit, J.Rogers, 30 p. which is full of interesting ideas. Price unknown.)
Angenommenes Damengambit I-II, E.Varnusz, Madler 1994, 328 p.
(ISBN 3-925691-11-1)
Price: DM 29.80
The Queens Gambit has been played by all leading topplayers with Black and
White, for decades. Varnusz in his book gives all important games from past and
present in 328 filled pages. The first part deals with moves like 3.Nc3, 3.e4
and 3.e3. Part II handles the classical 3.Nf3.
Every chapter, 18 in total, are build on theory, followed by important analysed
games. Most of the analyses though are not by Varnusz, but from other, sometimes
unknown sources.
Another point of critic: no correspondence chess games can be found in this
book.
Dreier Verlag
Reinhold Dreier
Seydlitzstrasse 13
D-67061 Ludwigshafen
Deutschland
Enzyklopedie der Aljechin-verteidigung Band A Der Vierbauernangriff, Erich
Siebenhaar, Verlag Reinhold Dreier, 1995, 294 p. (ISBN 3-929376-29-6)
Price: DM
To this book a disk with more then 1000 games can be bought, based on CAL: Chess
Assistant Light. No special software is necessary. DM 10.
At the end of the 80's the autor of this book, together with Ottstadt and
Delnef, wrote two high quality books on the Aljechin Defence. Publisher Dreier
now starts a serie of 6 books in which one of the original autors completely has
rewritten the manuscript and updated the theory. Every year two issues will be
published.
The combinatie book/CAL-disk has been used for several other titles which I
gladly mention, because there are some interesting titles like the one on the
From's and Polish, and most books have excellent analyses because the autor has
the liberty to put the example games on disk.
Das Froms Gambit - H.Warzecha
Coincidently a recent issue of Scottish Correspondence Chess brought 4
interesting games from Gurtovoi where a. the From's Gambit was the opening and
b. White had decided not to castled. These games are very interesting. See games
at the end of this article.
Die Polnische Verteidigung - P.Zimmer
Die Russische verteidigung - Forintos / Haag
Wiener Partie - Jakobetz / Somlai
Die Caro-Kann Verteidigung - H.Tiemann
Die Tarrasch Verteidigung - H.Keilhack.
Semi-Slawisch Antimeraner variante - E.Varnusz
Semi-Slawische Meraner Variante - E.Varnusz
Slawisch - E.Varnusz
Wie spielt man Bogo-indisch - E.Varnusz
Varnusz is a very busy chap, not only according to these titles, but also
looking at Queens Gambit Accepted (Madler). Fortunatly he keeps theory up to
date by recently publishing:
Neuerungen im Slawisch, E.Varnusz, Dreier Verlag 1994, 104 p.
(ISBN 963-04-4408-9)
Price: DM 19.80 (CAL-disk + 10 DM)
which update theory from the earlier Slav books by the autor.
A last title (to which no Cal-disk is available):
Schara-Hennig Gambit, E.Siebenhaar and B.Weigand, Dreier Verlag 1994, 110 p.
Price: DM 19.80
This interesting gambit has been succesful in many games. Most games in the book
though are correspondence chess-games!? After 1.d4 d5 2.c4 e6 3.Nc3 c5 4.cd5
cd4!? the gambit arises. Using its queen White can win a pawn, but it will cost
White a great deal of moves to retreat the queen, often to its original
position.
The autors created a book which covers almost all known theory on this line. To
make some advertisement for this variation 4 games can be found in the games
section: Borwell - v.Perlo, Mulder v.Leens Dijkstra - Morgado, Rotariu - Krantz
and Destaing - Martine
Rochade Verlag
H.Koehler
Vogelsbergstrasse 21
D-63477 Maintal
Deutschland
E-mail: 100600.2505@compuserve.com
Most chessbooks are quit expensive (>$20) and most of us can spend their money
only ones, and with limitation. Therefor it's very interesting to see this
German publisher selling quality monographies for a low price (DM 9.80 $6).
The subject is Leading chessplayer from the present or past, and some
openingmonographies also saw the light. The text is in German, all volumes have
80 pages and a lot of (analysed) games. The recent issues have algebraic
notation.
Alexej Schirov, H.Wieteck, Rochade Europa 1993, 80 p. (ISBN 3-920748-07-7)
Price: DM 9.80
84 games from 1987-1993
Gata Kamsky 2.0, N.Heymann, Rochade Europa 1995, 80 p. (ISBN 3-920748-20-4
Price: DM 9.80
97 games from 1986 - 1995
Shirov and Kamsky belong to the recent topgrandmaster who reach the worldelite
by having their names in the ELO top 10, or reach the Candidates. The style of
both players is completely different. One can say that Shirov is more a young
Tal look-a-like, and Kamsky has more of a Karpov style. It proved to be a
perfect style to win matches and matchtournaments, because Kamsky's great recent
results are wins in matches. Shirov is probably more motivated by several
opponents. I like the Shirov approach more, with his unorthodox openingpetlines
like 4.f3 in the Nimzo, 5.b6 against the Volga and many King's Indians.
Kamsky is more the 1.d4, 2.Nf3 and 3.Bg5-type with long positional struggles
where the game is decided in the endgame.
To give a little flavour to the text: look at the games Gheorghiu - Shirov and
Kamsky - Fedorowitz.
Leonid Stein, H.Wieteck, Rochade Europa 1994, 64 p. (ISBN 3-920748-16-6)
Price: DM 9.80
Language German,moves as figurines. 40 games all analysed
Leonid Stein was one of the leading chessplayers in the sixties, and today
hardly known. This monograph is very interesting and hopefully a complete
biography in a good lay-out (and English) will be published in the next few
years. Stein was probably one of the best Russian pre-war chessplayers, but died
very young at the age of 39 in 1973. My idea of him being one of the best
Russian, and thereby one of the best players of the world can be proved by the
following: three times champion of the USSR (1963 shared together with Cholmov
and Spassky, 1965 before Polugaevsky, Taimanov, 1967 ahead of Geller and
Kortschnoi), in the book Keres Best Games Volume 2 (Pergamon 1990) the game
Stein - Keres 1-0 (?, but a superb game) is given. The title "When champions
meet" to the game Fischer-Stein, Sousse 1967 in Fischers 60 Memorable Games
indicate to the status Stein had under his chesscollegaes. One of his greatest
triomphs was the shared win of the strong Alekhine Memorial in Moskow (1971)
together with Karpov, leading a field of all great names: Smyslov, Petrosian,
Tukmakov, Spasski, Tal, Bronstein and Kortschnoi) Stein was not a theoretical
player, but learned extremely fast and was exceptional good in all sort of
games.
To give you a tast of Steins capacities the following games are added to the
gamepart (and not in the booklet): Stein - Keres, Fischer - Stein, Spassky -
Stein, Stein - Tal and Stein - Polugaevsky. Stein could and would beat them all,
and all in the time when Tal and Spassky reached worldchampion level.
Stein just died to young to reach the real hall of fame.
Other playerbooks: Ivanschuk, Kramnik, J.Polgar and Kasparov. Further in this
series of 9.80 DM booklets openingtitles like Damenlauferspiel Lf4 (Queensbishop
Bf4), CaroKann 2.0 and Modern Defence Nc6 all by N.Heymann.
Wer wird Kasparovs herausforderer Jan Timman/Nigel Short, L.Steinkohl, Rochade
Europa 1992, 80 p. (ISBN 3-920748-05-0)
Price: DM 9.80
Language German, moves as text. 57 games
Potpourri seiner Schacherzahlungen, E.Gufeld, Rochade Europa 1995, 80 p. (ISBN
3-920478-19-0)
Price: DM 9.80
Eduard Gufeld is not only a strong Grandmaster, but also a gifted author of
several opening monographs. In this booklet several columns published in
different magazines and translated in German are presented. The book has
excellent chess and the stories and annotations are very pleasant to read.
To give you taste for more, the game Bagirov - Gufeld is included in the games
at the end. Take your chessboard and meet Gufeld's Mona Lisa. Reading the
annotations will bring much more pleasure.
Schach-Mekka Berlin in den "roaring twenties", H.Wieteck, Rochade Europa 1995,
217 p. (ISBN 3-920748-18-2)
Price: DM 19.80
Together with the before mentioned Schach und Sjalom, one of those exceptional
books. Berlin between 1920 and 1930 was together with Paris, Vienna and New York
the cities where cultural history was written. For chess this decade was of
extreme importance because three generations of players meet: Tarrasch and
Lasker, Capablanca and Nimzowitsch, Aljechin and Euwe. All great names, World
Champions and theoretics met in cafes and restaurants where maecenes put money
on the table and tournaments where held every year.
The autor has divided the material in chapters for every year, where not only
the strongest and righest get their place, but also little heroes, normally put
away in footnotes, or only known because they where slaughered. Players like
Breyer and Brinckman. Or journalist, publishers, writers, of which many died in
the Second World War or in Hitlers prisons.
Not only gives this book a rich story on 10 years chess, but only on the
cultural encagement of Berlin, accompanied with pictures of the city.
Which publisher has the curage to publish it for a larger audience, which autor
has the pen to make a book on New York with this theme?
Books reviewed
Garry Kasparov's Fighting Chess, G.Kasparov, J.Speelman andB.Wade, Batsford
1995, 312 p. (ISBN 0-7134-7919-1)
Price : UK Pounds 14.99
Vishy Anand Chess Super-Talent, David Norwood, Batsford 1995, 144 p.
(ISBN 0-7134-7816-0)
Price: UK Pounds 12.99
Winning with the Benko, Byron Jacobs, Batsford 1995, 144p.
(ISBN 0-7134-7232-4)
Price: UK Pounds 12.99
The complete Vienna, M.Tseitlin andI.Glazkov, Batsford 1995, 144 p.
(ISBN 0-
7134-7606-0)
Price : UK Pounds 12.99
The complete Benoni, Lev Psakhis, Batsford 1995, 256 p.
(ISBN 0 7134 7765 2)
Price: UK Pounds 15.99
The Saemisch King's Indian, Joe Gallagher, Batsford 1995, 240 p.
(ISBN 0 7134
7730 X)
Price: UK Pounds 14.99
The Latvian Gambit,Tony Kosten, Batsford 1995, 144 p. (ISBN 0 7134 7619 2)
Price: UK Pounds 12.99
Bobby Fischer My 60 Memorable Games, Batsford, 1995, 240 p. (ISBN 0 7134 7812 8)
Price: UK Pounds 14.99
Think like a grandmaster, Alexander Kotov, Batsford, 1995, 188 p.
(ISBN 0-7134-7885-3)
Price: UK Pounds 13.99
Capablanca's 100 Best Games, Harry Golombek, Batsford, 1995,
(ISBN 0-7134-4650-X)
Price: UK Pounds 10.99
Planning, Neil McDonald, Batsford, 1995, 112 p. (ISBN 0 7134 7573 0)
Price: UK Pounds 7.99
Gambits, Graham Burgess, Batsford, 1995, 112.p. (ISBN 0 7134 7574 9)
Price: UK Pounds 7.99
Secrets of Minor Piece Endings, John Nunn, Batsford, 1995 (ISBN 0 7134 7727 X)
Price: UK Pounds 17.99
Technique for the Tournament Player, M.Dvoretsky andA.Yusupov, Batsford 1995,
240p. (ISBN 0 7134 7722 9)
Price: UK Pounds 17.99
Winning Endgame Technique, A.Beliavsky andA.Mikhalchishin, Batsford 1995, 192 p.
(ISBN 0 7134 7512 9)
Price: UK Pounds 13.99
Secrets of Spectacular Chess, Jonathan Levitt andDavid Friedgood, Batsford,
1995, 222 p (ISBN 0 7134 7721 0)
Price: UK Pounds 14.99
Nimzo-indian Defence Classical Variation, I.Sokolov, Cadogan Press 1995, 148 p.
(ISBN1 85744 120 6)
Price: $17.95
Taimanov's Selected Games, M.Taimanov, Cadogan, 1995, 198 p.
(ISBN 1-85744-155-9)
Price: $19.95
Chess for Tomorrow's Champions, J.Walker, Cadogan ,1995, 144 p.
(ISBN 1-85744-195-8)
Price : $14.95
A primer of Chess, Jose Capablanca, Cadogan 1995, 150 p.
(ISBN 1 85744 165 6)
Price: $15.95
Ruy Lopez Arkhangelsk System (C78), J.Konikowski, S1 Editrice, 1995, 283 p.
(ISBN 88-86127-36-7)
Price: 30.000 Lires
Queen's Gambit Accepted (D20-D29), S1 Editrice, 1995, 179 p.
(ISBN 88-86127-34-0)
Price: 26.000 Lires
King's Indian Defence Saemisch Variation (E80-E89), M.Tirabassi e.a., S1
Editrice, 1995, 330 p. (ISBN 88-86127-35-9)
Price: 32.000 Lires
Sicilian Love, Polugaevsky, Piket and Gueneau, Interchess 1995, 324 p.
(ISBN 90-71689-999)
Price: $35
Slav: Botvinnik Variation, Rini Kuijf ,Interchess 1995, 108 p.
(Book: ISBN 90-71689-80-8)
Price: $25 (book + disk, NIC-limited edition to use gamefile)
(Text in Dutch, English and German)
Sicilian: English Attack, Alexander Nikitin, Interchess 1995, 108 p.
(Book: ISBN 90-71689-88-3)
Price: $25 (book + disk, NIC-limited edition to use gamefile)
(Text in Dutch, English and German)
NBC 25 year, van Spijk 1995, (ISBN 90 6216 128 6)
Price: DFL 29,75
Kurt Klar Gedenkturnier, H.Heemsoth, Muedler 1994, 119 p.
(ISBN 3-925691-08-1)
Price : DM 22.80
(German and figurines)
Schach und Schalom, Ludwig Steinkohl, Muedler 1995, 189 p.
(ISBN 3-925691-1-12-X)
Price: DM 24.80
Das Mittelgambit im Nachzug, J.Konikowski and M.Gupta, Muedler 1994, 130 p.
(ISBN 3-925691-07-3)
Price: DM 28
Angenommenes Damengambit I-II, E.Varnusz, Madler 1994, 328 p.
(ISBN 3-925691-11-1)
Price: DM 29.80
Enzyklopedie der Aljechin-verteidigung Band A Der Vierbauernangriff, Erich
Siebenhaar, Verlag Reinhold Dreier, 1995, 294 p.
(ISBN 3-929376-29-6)
Price: DM 34.80
Neuerungen im Slawisch, E.Varnusz, Dreier Verlag 1994, 104 p.
(ISBN 963-04-4408-9)
Price: DM 19.80 (CAL-disk + 10 DM)
Schara-Hennig Gambit, E.Siebenhaar and B.Weigand, Dreier Verlag 1994, 110 p.
Price: DM 19.80
Alexej Shirov, H.Wieteck, Rochade Europa 1993, 80 p.
(ISBN 3-920748-07-7)
Price: DM 9.80
84 games from 1987-1993
Gata Kamsky 2.0, N.Heymann, Rochade Europa 1995, 80 p.
(ISBN 3-920748-20-4
Price: DM 9.80
97 games from 1986 - 1995
Leonid Stein, H.Wieteck, Rochade Europa 1994, 64 p.
(ISBN 3-920748-16-6)
Price: DM 9.80
Language German,moves as figurines. 40 games all analysed
Wer wird Kasparovs herausforderer Jan Timman/Nigel Short, L.Steinkohl, Rochade
Europa 1992, 80 p.
(ISBN 3-920748-05-0)
Price: DM 9.80
Language German, moves as text. 57 games
Potpourri seiner Schacherzahlungen, E.Gufeld, Rochade Europa 1995, 80 p.
(ISBN 3-920478-19-0)
Price: DM 9.80
Schach-Mekka Berlin in den "roaring twenties", H.Wieteck, Rochade Europa 1995,
217 p.
(ISBN 3-920748-18-2)
Price: DM 19.80