World Chess Championship 2021

• Detailed analysis of games with experts’ observations
• Selection of best games by Carlsen and Nepomniachtchi with instructive annotations
• Short history of World Chess Championship
• Pre-match predictions and post-match reflections

248 Seiten, englisch, kartoniert, 1. Auflage 2022

Jan Nepomnjaschtschi gegen Magnus Carlsen

Immer wenn sich der Weltmeister im Schach einem Herausforderer zum Kampf um die Krone stellen muss, schaut über den Kreis der Anhänger des königlichen Spiels hinaus die ganze Welt auf dieses Ereignis. So sollte es auch im Dezember 2020 sein, als der Russe Jan Nepomnjaschtschi in Dubai auf den norwegischen Titelinhaber Magnus Carlsen treffen sollte. Die Covid-19-Pandemie setze die Veranstaltung jedoch patt, sie musste in den Herbst 2021 verschoben werden. Ab dem 24. November 2021 wurde das auf 14 reguläre Wettkampfpartien angesetzte Duell dann endlich gestartet.

Masterpieces and Dramas 1938-1947

The second part of Sergey Voronkov’s three-volume treatise continues from where Volume I left off. It covers the eleventh to fifteenth Soviet championships, the 1941 match tournament for the title of Soviet Absolute Champion, and the main events in the country’s chess history between these tournaments. Themes include the downfall of Nikolai Krylenko, the persecution and disappearance of Soviet chess players during the purges, and the experience of chess players in World War Two. The atmosphere of the time is captured in contemporary accounts and memoirs of key players and cultural figures.

Aus der Reihe »Quarterly for Chess History«

005 Chess Archives

Tournament Research, 1919-1922 (Anthony Gillam)

179 Chess Biographies

The Short Career of Wilhelm Hanstein (1811-1850) (Vlastimil Fiala)

217 Forgotten Chess Tournaments

Chess in Displaced Person Camps after World War Two and th Aus der Reihe »Quarterly for Chess History«

In 1971 Robert James Fischer defeated Mark Taimanov by the sensational score of 6– 0 in Vancouver, but the match games were far more competitive and tension-filled than the final score would suggest. Twenty years later Taimanov put pen to paper, reflecting on the experience. Exactly 50 years after the match, this is the first English translation of Taimanov’s original Russian text

Bobby Fischer’s Road to Reykjavik

Initially things looked gloomy for Bobby Fischer. Because he had refused to participate in the 1969 US Championship, he had missed his chance to qualify for the 1970 Interzonal Tournament in Palma de Mallorca. Only when another American, Pal Benko, withdrew in his favour, and after the officials were willing to bend the rules, could Bobby enter the contest. And begin his phenomenal run that would end with the Match of the Century in Reykjavik against World Champion Boris Spassky.

Erlebnisse, Nachdenkliches und mehr aus der Feder eines erfolgreichen Bankiers und Schachmeisters

Ignaz Kolisch (1837-1889) lebte vier Leben:

Er war ein Schachspieler von Weltklasse, außergewöhnlich erfolgreiches Finanzgenie, großzügiger Rentier und, schließlich, Journalist aus Leidenschaft – was so weit ging, dass er eine Tageszeitung kaufte, die Wiener Allgemeine Zeitung, und in den Jahren 1886-1888 die sonntäglichen Feuilletons schrieb.

USSR vs. World

CHESS INFORMANT proudly presents the book about the most famous team match in history of our royal game:

• 2 outstanding teams
• 20 best chess-players in the World
• 4 rounds of epic battle
• 40 thrilling, hard-fought games

   

The match between the USSR and the Rest of the World was an epoch-defining event that featured many of the greatest names in the history of chess. Five World Champions, and all of the world’s highest-rated players - without exception - took part. Not for nothing was it billed as the “Match of the Century”.

Irgendwo im Nirgendwo

Ein Turnierbuch der Extraklasse mit 78 Abbildungen und 120 z.T. ausführlich kommentierten Partien. Der Autor hat vor Ort recherchiert und bringt viele seltene, z.T. unveröffentlichte Quellen (u.a. Korrespondenzen von Emanuel Lasker als Faksimile). Kommentare und Analysen von Hübner, Lasker, Marco, Marshall, Schlechter und Tarrasch sowie ergänzend vom Redaktonsteam Arno Nickel und Thomas Stark.

Five Kasparov-Karpov Matches for the WCC

On September 10, 1984, Anatoly Karpov and Garry Kasparov appeared on the stage of the Hall of Columns in Moscow for the first game of their match for the World Chess Championship. The clash between the reigning champion and his brazen young challenger was highly anticipated, but no one could have foreseen what was in store

FIDE World Chess Championship London 2018

This match between the number one and number two ranked players in the world is one of the most eagerly-awaited World Championship clashes of recent years. Defending champion Magnus Carlsen first gained the title in 2013 when he beat Viswanathan Anand. He has already successfully defended his title twice, against Anand in 2014 and against Sergey Karjakin in 2016. Carlsen has been the highest ranked player in the world since July 2011.

A Handbook for Historians

A huge amount was published about chess in the United Kingdom before the First World War. The growing popularity of chess in Victorian Britain was reflected in an increasingly competitive market of books and periodicals aimed at players from beginner to expert. The author combines new information about the early history of the game with advice for researchers into chess history and traces the further development of chess literature well into the 20th century.

All available games from:

• Berlin v Scheveningen 1920 complete; all 8 games

   

• Vienna (April) 1920: 7 games and positions; this is a “mystery” tournament without even an agreed final result; this book has a long article with new discoveries; Reti won ahead of Grünfeld, Breyer, Tartakower, Balla and Löwy.

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