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Bezig met laden... Kasparov: How His Predecessors Misled Him About Chess (Batsford Chess Books)door Tibor Karólyi, Nick Aplin
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Meld je aan bij LibraryThing om erachter te komen of je dit boek goed zult vinden. Op dit moment geen Discussie gesprekken over dit boek. This book exists in a rarefied genre of chess literature: the How to Beat Bob Loblaw book. The idea is simple and sound: to present a collection of games in which one of the greatest players to ever play the game lost and to analyze why. This book is a singularly annoying entry in this field. The authors write the book as though they were Kasparov (1st person) as opposed to providing insightful or non-insipid analysis. In their introduction they state that the concept was originally intended for a chess column, and it would have been much more suited to that amount of space. At 271 pages, this book stretches the "joke" about 270 pages too far. geen besprekingen | voeg een bespreking toe
Over the past few years the great chess player Garry Kasparov has written five best-selling books praising the contributions to chess made by the previous world champions. The series is called ''My Great Predecessors''. As a reaction to this wonderful series of books, leading chess writer Tibor Károlyi has written this imaginary sixth volume. In gently humorous - but chessically serious - style, the author imagines Kasparov is annotating over 70 of his own lost games, and blaming all these defeats on the bad influence of each of the previous world champions, providing in-depth analysis to show how he was misled by them. The book also serves as a highly instructive, practical chess book - to beat Kasparov, the greatest player of all time, took some pretty special chess, and readers will enjoy learning from this. It is astonishing how the author has managed to find so many games that exhibit uncanny similarities between Kasparov and his predecessors, which makes the content of the book extremely plausible - as if Kasparov himself were writing it. This is a brilliant and totally original chess book that could only have been written by someone with great knowledge of Kasparov and the past world champions. Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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