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Botvinnik - 100 Selected Games
Master chess from a World Champion! Botvinnik handpicked and annotated these 100 games, played before his 1948 title win. Features matches against Alekhine, Capablanca, Euwe, Keres, Reshevsky, Smyslov, and more. Botvinnik shares his theories, Russian chess evolution, and six endgame studies.
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First published June 1, 1960
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August 2, 2013
Having returned to chess after a long gap of 15 years I set upon renewing my chess library. Got one book on each of the facets of chess along with related softwares and then to link all of it together got this book to study master games.
I really got a good deal in this book (literally too). The games are really good and the annotations are very nice. However if you are say a below 1600 player, this book is not for you. Botvinnik does not even give elaborations on wrong moves that may lead to loss of material in 3-4 moves... He just skips them and does not discuss them in his list of candidate moves.
so if you are say below 1600 get "road to chess mastery" by euwe instead. That is an excellent book to start out with.
Next in line
a)zurich 1953
& b) my 60 best games by fischer.
I really got a good deal in this book (literally too). The games are really good and the annotations are very nice. However if you are say a below 1600 player, this book is not for you. Botvinnik does not even give elaborations on wrong moves that may lead to loss of material in 3-4 moves... He just skips them and does not discuss them in his list of candidate moves.
so if you are say below 1600 get "road to chess mastery" by euwe instead. That is an excellent book to start out with.
Next in line
a)zurich 1953
& b) my 60 best games by fischer.
September 1, 2017
Good
Needs to be upgraded to algebraic notation. Otherwise a very good job. Good for beginners to experts. I would recommend it ☺
Needs to be upgraded to algebraic notation. Otherwise a very good job. Good for beginners to experts. I would recommend it ☺
August 3, 2022
This is one of the finest game collections by any of the great chess players. The annotated games go up to 1946, by which time Botvinnik was approaching his best ever form to became World Champion (1948). A few more years at peak performance, until perhaps 1950 and then it was a slow, ever so slow, decline until he lost the title in 1963. The annotations are superb and highly instructive; the games are complicated strategically and played with a precision allied to an implacable will to win which made even Bobby Fischer admire him. If you have not played carefully through the games in this book, you are not a true chess player. Just a dilettante.
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