Semiopen Game in Action

by Anatoly Karpov

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Genres: Chess

144 pages, Paperback

First published December 1, 1988

About the author

Russian chess master Anatoly Yevgenyevich Karpov ranked from 1975 as world champion to 1985.

Garry Kasparov defeated this official grand doctor. From 1986, he played three matches against Kasparov for the title to 1990. After Kasparove broke away from Fédération Internationale des Échecs in 1993, he then held its title once again. He held the title but in protest against new rules resigned in 1999. Many consider Karpov of the greatest players of all time for his decades-long standing among the elite.

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Reviews

[Alberto · Rating 4 out of 5]

Karpov's writing is as good as ever, and his analysis is insightful and enteratining. However, I couldn't give this book 5 stars because it has so many mistakes. I don't mean errors in analysis (although there are a couple of those); I mean notational errors - missing moves, illegal moves, Nc6 when Nf6 or even Nf3 is meant, sometimes Ne4 when Nd5 is meant. On page 120, it says Qe1 when the move was actually Nc6. Sometimes captures are indicated Nxe4 and sometimes it just says Ne4 (informant style). Sometimes checks are indicated with the + and sometimes they're not. In short, the editing is atrocious. Karpov's work deserved better.

For those interested, the book is more than 50% dedicated to the Sicilian. There are 6 Caro-Kann games, 5 French games and 2 Pirc games, generally well selected and good examples of the lines under investigation.