The Centenary Match: Kasparov-Karpov III

by Raymond D. Keene, David Goodman

Traces the history of the chess world championship, and analyzes the twenty-four games of the 1986 match between the world champion, Anatoly Karpov, and his challenger, Gary Kasparov

Genres: Chess

124 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1986

Reviews

[Liquidlasagna · Rating 3 out of 5]

Enjoy the book for the format and the typesetting

just don't expect anything spectacular with Keene's lazy notes
(or his boring partisan blather about chess politics)

just get out your chess computer
(or any chess book that might have deep annotations of a few of the games here....)



Keene wrote a few good books for the early 70s
and totally ended up being another 'worse than Reinfeld' hack by 1980
most people give a book like this a 4/10 for the rushed and usually skimpy analysis
but even still, it's an allright introduction to the games

[Frederick Tan · Rating 4 out of 5]

A superb book about the Chess World Championship between the the challenger Gary Kasparov and Anatoly Karpov. Over three series of challenging chess matches we can see the drama unfold behind the scene as the tension builds up for the ultimate victory of sheer willpower over talent. A must read for any chess follower.