Winning Chess Brilliancies

by Yasser Seirawan

Get a taste of the most dazzling chess combinations, devious strategies, and downright cruel blows as world champions throw caution to the wind and risk it all! Readers will delight as the author takes these awe-inspiring and controversial games and makes them enjoyable and easy to understand.

Genres: Chess, Nonfiction

272 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1995

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 4 out of 5]

What this book Really is, is an excellent instruction in positional chess, emphasis on resulting tactics and their flawless execution. I know what you're thinking. - "Well DUH!".
My point is really a criticism. This is a book on brilliancies. As good as this book is (awesome!), it could have featured twice as many games, without necessarily printing the Entire games. This is not a book that should (necessarily) have opening analysis on every single game. Just my opinion.

[Noah Seymour · Rating 4 out of 5]

Gave me many happy hours marvelling behind the board at the brilliance exuded by the world's best chess players.

[Ernest Cadorin · Rating 3 out of 5]

This book presents 12 grandmaster games and explains each move in great detail at an appropriate level for me (1600 rating). The explanations are straight-forward and logical. It is very similar in format to Chernev’s book Logical Chess Move by Move.

As the name suggests, this book features games that have brilliant moments, and not necessarily games that have an abundance of common strategic themes. The background information given at the beginning of each game is interesting.

[Casey · Rating 3 out of 5]

A great collection of instructional games. I learned a lot from this book.

[Brandon · Rating 5 out of 5]

Another great chess book by Seirawan. He writes for his readers to understand his game. This book teaches via my favorite chess teaching method ... move by move through memorable games.

[Alberto · Rating 3 out of 5]

Seirawan's writing and analysis are excellent, but come on now, just 12 games, and 10 of those very well known and widely available in other books? Not a great amount of material to work with here.