Listing # 26489
| Listing Format: | Auction |
| Current price : | €16,00 |
| Starting bid: | €5,00 |
| # of bids: | 9 |
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| Location: | Sweden |
| Started: | 2021-05-01 01:00:00 |
| Ended: | 2021-05-10 20:13:34 |
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Tibor Károlyi & Nick Aplin: Genius in the Background.
Contains 11 chapters with biographies of Petko Atanasov (Topalov's junior trainer), Yochanan Afek, Gerardo Barbero, Alexander Shakarov (Kasparov's junior trainer), Karoly Honfi, Ashot Nadanian (Kasparovs 'Half-Brother'), Karsten Müller (The Endgame Expert), Laszlo Lindner, Elmar Magerramov ("When Garry played I was with him"), Singapore - The Stars of a developing Chess Nation (Tan Lian Ann, Wong Meng Kong, Ignatius Leong, Jason Goh Koon Jong), Oleg Pervakov (The Moscow Magician).
Genius in the Background introduces brilliant chess that will be unfamiliar to even well-read chessplayers. These chess stars are profiled with examples of their greatest achievements, but the stars are not famous – they are geniuses who stay in the background. For example, Pervakov and Afek are not household names but they compose chess studies and puzzles of such elegance and cleverness that they deserve to be famous. Top players such as Garry Kasparov and Veselin Topalov may be famous names to chess fans, but they did not become World Champions without great help – two of their coaches are profiled in this book and provide insights into the education of a chess champion. A broad range of chess is covered by the twelve profiles – from openings to endgames, puzzles to training. The common thread is beauty and brilliance that deserves to be better known.
Tibor Károlyi is an International Master of chess from Budapest, Hungary. He was Hungarian Chess Champion in 1984 and is also an award-winning author and renowned chess coach. One of his previous books won the Guardian’s chess Book of the Year prize in 2007. Károlyi coached Peter Leko, a former World Championship challenger, during Leko’s teenage years when in the space of four years Leko improved from promising junior to grandmaster.
Nick Aplin is a university professor and respected chess author from Singapore.
384 pages paperback. Quality Chess, Glasgow 2009. ISBN: 978-1906552374.
Condition: Brand New. Weight 680 g.
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