After Magnus

Verdensstjerne Anish Giri presenterer ti mulige utfordrere eller etterfølgere til Magnus som verdensmester. Etter en introduksjon kommenterer Giri ett utvalgt parti av hver av de ti spillerne, lesverdige og hyggelige kommentarer som ikke drukner i varianter.

De ti spillerne er: Richard Rapport, Yu Yang Yi, Wesley So, Ding Liren, Fabiano Caruana, Maxime Vachier Lagrave, Hikaru Nakamura, Aleksander Grichuk og Vishy Anand... Han har altså beskjedent hoppet over seg selv, og ellers savner nesten kuriøst Sergej Karjakin... som altså blir den første som får forsøke nettopp å bli etterfølgeren.

Giri er heldigvis langt bedre som kommentator enn som spåmann. En sympatisk med også praktisk mange diagrammer, så den nesten kan leses på senga!

Forlagets egen omtale

Twenty more years? Magnus Carlsen has said that he may stay at the top for another 20 years. And who can argue with the World Champion? He's been dominating top-level chess with an iron fist and has rightly highlighted the lack of consistency from his potential rivals.

When Bobby Fischer, Garry Kasparov and Magnus Carlsen burst onto the chess scene, there was no doubt whatsoever about their future destiny: sooner or later they were going to become World Champion. How different is the situation today, when there seems to be no such player.

New In Chess contributing editor Anish Giri presents ten chess players that may challenge Carlsen's hegemony in the years ahead. Or may not. Giri not only shares his insider's knowledge about his colleagues in his lucid and witty notes to their games, he also provides the reader with valuable lessons in all phases of the game.

Anish Giri (1994) became a Grandmaster at the age of 14.

IM John Donaldson, Chess Today, on Giri's My Junior Years in 20 Games: "The games are thoroughly and instructively annotated. An excellent book and one that deserves a place in every chess player's librabry."