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Chess Secrets: Giants of Innovation
Chess Secrets is a series which uncovers the mysteries of the most important aspects of chess, such as strategy, attack, defence, opening play, endgames, off-board preparation and mental attitude. In each book the author chooses and studies deeply a number of great players who have excelled in such aspects of the game, greatly influenced their peers and inspired all of us.
In Giants of Innovation , Craig Pritchett selects five chess legends whose play exemplifies outstandingly innovative attributes. Wilhelm Steinitz established the essential ground-rules for modern positional chess. Emanuel Lasker pioneered a new kind of “total”, all-out battling chess. Mikhail Botvinnik taught us how to prepare and successfully play an entire range of complex modern opening systems. Viktor Korchnoi set particularly high standards in the art of defence and counter-attack. Vassily Ivanchuk, a modern byword for ingenuity and surprise, excels by constant creation. Read this book and enhance your own skills. Understand how to inject more innovation into your own games.
In Giants of Innovation , Craig Pritchett selects five chess legends whose play exemplifies outstandingly innovative attributes. Wilhelm Steinitz established the essential ground-rules for modern positional chess. Emanuel Lasker pioneered a new kind of “total”, all-out battling chess. Mikhail Botvinnik taught us how to prepare and successfully play an entire range of complex modern opening systems. Viktor Korchnoi set particularly high standards in the art of defence and counter-attack. Vassily Ivanchuk, a modern byword for ingenuity and surprise, excels by constant creation. Read this book and enhance your own skills. Understand how to inject more innovation into your own games.
- GenresChess
288 pages, Paperback
First published December 20, 2011
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March 25, 2018
Has a lot of errors (factual, typographical and analytical) but a good read nonetheless. Interesting games, good discussion. Four stars (just barely, though).
February 15, 2012
Long time ago people thought chess was cultural, then computers and antipositional prodigies reduced the game to its deterministic elements. No one told Pritchett, who has produced a book that is literate, historically well-informed, up-to-date on chess theory, and appreciative of the aesthetic elements of the game. This is the book people fantasize about reading by a fire with a snifter of brandy, that simultaneously entertains and educates you. If you're a serious player (I ain't) there's plenty of supporting analysis, and you can go as deep into Lasker's immortal f5! vs. Capablanca as you'd like. A competent chess player reviews the book here.
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