Five Crowns

by Yasser Seirawan, Jonathan Tisdall

Five is the number of world chess championship matches that Garry Kasparov and Anatoly Karpov contested from 1984 to 1990. Yasser Seirawan deeply analyses all 24 games of the 1990 New York/Lyon World Championship Match. Yasser answers all the big who was brilliant, who was belligerent, who blew it, and why. Jonathan Tisdall reports all the news from ringside. Also includes every game (unannotated) played between Kasparov and Karpov, as of June 1991, by opening. Yasser Seirawan, one of the top US grandmasters was a match commentator in New York and Lyon. Jonathan Tisdall is a chess correspondent for Reuters. Algebraic notation, 256 pages. (I.C.E., 1991).

Genres: Chess

255 pages, Paperback

First published March 1, 1991

About the author

Yasser Seirawan is an American chess grandmaster and four-time United States champion. He is a published chess author and commentator. His peak FIDE rating was 2658, which he reached in November, 2011.

Reviews

[JStanz · Rating 5 out of 5]

Clash of the Titans!! Instructive and entertaining. This book could easily be called 'Master the Grunfeld, with other bonus openings'. Great book.