The Mammoth Book of The World's Greatest Chess Games New Expanded Edition - Now with 125 Games by John Nunn, John Emms, Graham Burgess
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Publisher: Constable & Robinson , 2010 Edition: Paperback medium ISBN: 978-0-7624-3995-9 Pages: 704 Language: English
Improve your chess by studying the greatest games of all time.
Here are the 125 greatest chess games of all time: selected, analysed, re-evaluated and explained by a team of experts, and illustrated with over 1,000 diagrams. Join the authors in studying the cream of two centuries of international chess, and develop your own chess-playing skills, whatever your current standard.
Discover how to attack, keep the initiative, defend and counter-attack. Learn logical opening play, endgame strategy, psychological warfare and how the great players think. Instructive points at the end of each game highlight the games' important lessons.
• Adolf Anderssen's 'Immortal' and 'Evergreen' games • Bobby Fischer's 'Game of the Century' • Kasparov's flash of genius against Topalov • Deep Blue's historic first win over Kasparov • Indian wizard Anand's bamboozling of Russian world Champion Kramnik
Graham Burgess has been a World Chess Federation (FIDE) Master since the age of 20. As well as having competed at international level for many years, he has written more than 20 highly acclaimed books on chess, two of which have won 'Book of the Year' awards, and edited more than 250. In 1994 he set a new world record by playing 510 games of blitz chess scoring a remarkable 87 per cent.
Dr John Nunn is one of the most respected figures in world chess. He was among the world's leading grandmasters for nearly twenty years, winning four gold medals in chess Olympiads and finishing sixth overall in the World Cup in 1989. In both 2004 and 2007 Nunn was crowned World Chess Solving Champion, ahead of many former champions.
John Emms is one of England's strongest grandmasters, and an experienced trainer and editor. He is also a skilful and versatile writer: who has written successful books on topics as vaied as opening monographs, general training guides and puzzle books.
John Watson, International Master: "These are some of the most famous games in chess history, yet the authors consistently find significant improvements upon earlier published analysis."