Karpov move by move

46 utvalgte partier med tidligere verdensmester Karpov, som er kjent for sitt instruktive spill. Blant flere samlinger av Karpovs partier har denne ekstra pedagogiske formål overfor vanlige klubbspillere.

For mange er Karpov-sjakk synonymt med glimrende sjakk på en ofte mer forståelig måte. Det siste kapitlet i boka, "Recent Battles", inneholder tre partier fra 2014 og viser at mannen fortsatt kan spille fint.

Forlagets egen omtale:

Anatoly Karpov is considered by many to be one of the greatest chess players of all time.

He was the undisputed World Champion from 1975 to 1985, and also FIDE World Champion from 1993 to 1999. He was ranked the World's number one player for 90 months - second only to his greatest rival Garry Kasparov - and he won well over a hundred elite tournaments.

Karpov possessed a deep positional understanding of the game and a fabulous intuitive feel for positions. His boa-constrictor style left many opponents wondering where exactly they went wrong.

In this book, International Master Sam Collins selects and examines his favourite Karpov games, and shows us how we can all learn and improve our chess by studying Karpov's play.

Move by Move provides an ideal platform to study chess. By continually challenging the reader to answer probing questions throughout the book, the Move by Move format greatly encourages the learning and practising of vital skills just as much as the traditional assimilation of knowledge.

Carefully selected questions and answers are designed to keep you actively involved and allow you to monitor your progress as you learn. This is an excellent way to improve your chess skills and knowledge.

• Learn from the games of a chess legend • Important ideas absorbed by continued practice • Utilizes an ideal approach to chess study

International Master Sam Collins is a former Irish Champion and an individual gold medalist at the 2002 Bled Chess Olympiad. He has a wealth of writing experience and is a regular columnist for British Chess Magazine and Chess Today.

Innholdsfortegnelsen:

• Introduction
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• 1 Middlegame Themes 16 Prophylaxis 16 Opposite-Coloured Bishops in the Middlegame 29 Exchange Sacrifice 52

• 2 Key Structures 65 The Isolated Queen’s Pawn 65 The Minority Attack 133

• 3 Openings 146 Battles in the Pirc 146 Beating the Sicilian 164 King’s Fianchetto 194 A Weapon against the QID
  205 White against the Semi-Slav 217

• 4 Linares 1994 232

• 5 Recent Battles 270 Index of Openings 286 Index of Opponents 287