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200 Open Games
Russian grandmaster offers a wealth of his finest games, presented in full with numerous illustrative diagrams. Lively, frequently amusing commentary emphasizes ideas behind moves, shows how 1P-K4—P-K4 imposes its patterns on subsequent game. 207 black-and-white illustrations.
240 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 1974
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September 19, 2010
I never really played open games a great deal when I was a serious chess player, so this book didn't influence me as much as it otherwise might have done. But while people are paying tribute to the recently departed greats, I must share this rather moving story that I saw in a recent number of New In Chess. It was written by Bronstein's widow, and she was talking about his last days.
He'd had a massive stroke, and it had clearly affected his mind. She wanted to know how much, so she asked him a few simple questions: his name, where he was born, stuff like that. He answered everything correctly. And then she said:
"David, who was the greatest ever interpreter of the King's Indian Defence?"
She was clearly expecting him to say that he was - many people consider he had an obvious claim. But Bronstein whispered:
"Geller..."
Courteous, exact and kind of amusing even on his deathbed. You can see why the whole chess world loved him.
He'd had a massive stroke, and it had clearly affected his mind. She wanted to know how much, so she asked him a few simple questions: his name, where he was born, stuff like that. He answered everything correctly. And then she said:
"David, who was the greatest ever interpreter of the King's Indian Defence?"
She was clearly expecting him to say that he was - many people consider he had an obvious claim. But Bronstein whispered:
"Geller..."
Courteous, exact and kind of amusing even on his deathbed. You can see why the whole chess world loved him.
December 9, 2012
Okay, so I like reading chess books. Get over it. Bronstein is probably one of the best and entertaing chess writers ever. (Brady and Seirwan being the others) This was the first book of his translated into englisha nd it is a great anaylsis of E4 chess openings and thoughts processes behind the first moves of those games. Be warned that the book is written in old style chess notation (B-KB4, and things like that.) No one on my friends list will truly care about this book, I am sorry to use up space on your feed. :P
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