Ivanchuk: Move by Move

by Junior Tay

Vassily Ivanchuk has been one of the World's leading chess players for over two decades. He announced his arrival as a 21-year-old when he defeated Garry Kasparov on the way to winning the Linares Super-Grandmaster event. In a distinguished career he has won countless elite tournaments and was a FIDE World Championship finalist.

Ivanchuk is considered by many contemporaries to be a chess genius, and he has acquired a huge fan base that delights in his enterprising and creative play. His original style has helped to create games full of brilliant attacking chess and masterful strategy. In this book, Junior Tay invites you to join him in a study of his favourite Ivanchuk games, and shows us how we can all improve by learning from Ivanchuk's masterpieces.

Move by Move provides an ideal platform to study chess. By continually challenging the reader to answer probing questions throughout the book, the Move by Move format greatly encourages the learning and practising of vital skills just as much as the traditional assimilation of knowledge. Carefully selected questions and answers are designed to keep you actively involved and allow you to monitor your progress as you learn. This is an excellent way to improve your chess skills and knowledge.

Genres: Chess

676 pages, Kindle Edition

First published April 28, 2015

Reviews

[Serge Pierro · Rating 4 out of 5]

Junior Tay does a fine job in presenting the brilliant games of Vassily Ivanchuk. The books contains many of the creative games and moves that Ivanchuk is known for. Considered a Chess genius by many, myself included, there are many examples of why he stands apart from his contemporaries. In many of the games you are asked what move you would make next, and undoubtedly you will choose a “normal” move, whereas Ivanchuk will make a move that in all likelihood you didn’t even consider. He has long been one of my favorite players and I am always interested in playing over his games to see what innovative ideas he has unleashed against his opponent. Highly recommended for those interested in reading about the creative chess playing/thinking of one of the most original/creative players to ever play the game.

[Chris · Rating 3 out of 5]

I will want to return to this. I have not looked at all the games yet.
I was disappointed in the inaccuracies in the evaluations of the positions.
True I don't need to see a computer analysis. That's what computers are for, and I want to read the GM perspective. But Junior Tay is not a GM, and I think he should have at least checked his ideas with the computer, rather than write so many untruths.