Igor Stohl Boeken

Garry Kasparov has dominated the chess world for more than twenty years. His dynamism and preparation have set an example that is followed by most ambitious players. Igor Stohl has selected 74 of Kasparov's best and most instructive games from 1973 to 1993, and annotated them in detail. The emphasis is on explaining the thoughts behind Kasparov's decisions, and the principles and concepts embodied by his moves. Stohl provides a wealth of fresh insights into these landmark games, together with many new analytical points. This makes the book outstanding study material for all chess enthusiasts.In 1985 Garry Kasparov became the youngest world chess champion in history by defeating Anatoly Karpov in an epic struggle. Twenty years later he was still world number 1, and is an internationally renowned figure, famous even among the non-chess-playing public following high-profile events such as his matches against IBM's Deep Blue supercomputer, and the Kasparov vs. World game in 1999.

62 brilliant games involving the best players in the world, with notes by one of the top annotators. Igor Stohl has selected 62 outstanding games from recent years and analysed them in painstaking depth. Here he presents his findings to chess enthusiasts, who will find the games entertaining and the annotations both instructive and illuminating. Stohl is an outstanding theoretical expert, so the opening phase of each game reads like a lesson in the key strategic aspects of the opening chosen, with a critical survey of modern trends. The middlegame is dissected and the critical decisions subjected to keen scrutiny - we are invited inside Stohl's laboratory to join him in the quest for the truth. The endgame phase, if reached, is handled with similar erudition, with insights into the grandmaster's approach to questions of technique. Following each game there is a discussion of the most important lessons to be learned. The expanded and revised new edition of this award-winning work features 12 new top-level games from the period 2000-2007 annotated in great depth - about 40% new material. There are also corrections to the existing notes and a revised Introduction.

Igor Stohl hat 50 herausragende Partien aus jüngerer Zeit einer tiefschürfenden Analyse unterzogen und präsentiert in diesem Buch seine Ergebnisse. Die Partien haben einen hohen Unterhaltungswert und sind mit instruktiven und aufschlussreichen Anmerkungen versehen. Da Stohl ein führender Theorieexperte ist, liest sich die Eröffnungsphase jeder Partie wie eine Lehrstunde über die strategischen Schlüsselmerkmale der gespielten Eröffnung inklusive einer kritischen Betrachtung moderner Trends. Der Autor nimmt Mittelspiel und kritische Entscheidungen genau unter die Lupe und lädt den Leser dazu ein, ihn auf seiner Suche nach der Wahrheit in sein Labor zu begleiten. Die Endspielphase wird mit gleicher Sachkenntnis abgehandelt und gibt Aufschluss darüber, wie Großmeister mit Fragen der Technik umgehen. Im Anschluss an jede Partie werden die wichtigsten daraus zu ziehenden Lehren erörtert.