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That's a very weak attempt at a critique (not sure what else to call it). In a nutshell, his idea is that since Gary is the World chess champion, he can't write a good book that deals with life in general. It must be about chess.

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by Jonathan D. Steinhoff

Finally!!!>

<Chess Secrets: Great Attackers: Learn from Kasparov, Tal and Stein

Colin Crouch

The chess world has witnessed a great number of wonderfully gifted attacking players, geniuses who have dazzled the chess public with their brilliant masterpieces. Everyone has their own favourites, and in Chess Secrets: Great Attackers, Colin Crouch chooses three of his own: Garry Kasparov, Mikhail Tal and Leonid Stein. World Champions Kasparov and Tal need no introduction, while Stein was a highly creative and intuitive player with the ability to destroy the world's best players with his vicious attacks.

Crouch examines their differing approaches and styles, and highlights some crucial themes, including the idea of controlled risk - in some sacrificial attacks even the greatest players can't always see everything to the end. A study of this book will help you to enhance your skills in one of the most crucial elements of the game.

An entertaining and instructive guide to attacking chess

Learn from the greats of the game

Discover how famous chess minds work

Chess Secrets is a new series of books which uncover the mysteries of the most important aspects of chess study: strategy, attacking play, opening play and gambits, classical play, endgames and preparation. In each book the author chooses and deeply studies a number of great players from chess history who have excelled in a particular field of the game and who have genuinely influenced their descendants.

A beautiful 'reason' (her name is Dasha ~ Gift of God) to quit chess forever:

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A little Photo-Story:

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I do detect a certain amount of tendentiousness in Gazza's account, but this is hardly unexpected. The book would not be half as good if Garry didn't vent his own spleen. Overall, if anything, it's more balanced than I was expecting from Gazza. Fundamentally, it seems to me that both Karpov and Kasparov were victims of both Campomanes and the Russian Chess Federation, although this operated substantially to Karpov's benefit, and Karpov was in a position to do more to prevent the absurdity of the match being aborted.

The introduction refers to Karpov's attempt to visit Gazza in jail, with the magnanimous statement that this gesture outweighed all the animosity between them during their career.

Another striking point, which I hadn't known, was the conspicuously friendly atmosphere of the first match, with the players analysing after the game.

I haven't gone through the games in any detail, but expect the analysis to be top-notch, most of these games having been extensively analysed before (not least by Gazza). More importantly, though, this book offers what others cannot, an idea of what the players were thinking at the time.