From London to Elista: The Inside Story of the World Chess Championship Matches that Vladimir Kramnik Won Against Garry Kasparov, Peter Leko, and Veselin Topalov - Softcover

Evgeny, Bareev; Levitov, Ilya

Softcover

ISBN 10: 9056912194 ISBN 13: 9789056912192

Publisher: New In Chess, 2007

Synopsis

A fascinating look behind the scenes of top-level chess with superb analysis of all the games by Evgeny Bareev, a former second of world champion Vladimir Kramnik. The authors reveal everything about the three world chess championship matches: the preparation, the progress and the aftermath, the secret strategy and the brutal stress. Full of honesty, irony, history, wit, anger, wisdom, and even poetry. Winner of the English Chess Federation 2008 Book-of-the-Year Award, the most prestigious chess book prize in the world. With many photographs.

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Review:

"Bareev’s account of the events is simply breathtaking (...) It is the most sincere portrait of a world champion I have ever read." -- ChessVibes

"I can assure you that this is one of those books that you cannot put down." -- Elburg Chess Reviews

"Undisputably the best chess book of 2007 (...) A terrific read." -- Former Dutch Champion IM Gert Ligterink, de Volkskrant

"[A]bsolutely riveting (...) It is rare for anybody to have taken the lid off the day-to-day work that seconds do and still rarer for them to have made it so interesting (...) Extremely good." -- British Chess Magazine

About this edition

• Publisher: New In Chess
• Publication date: 2007
• ISBN 10: 9056912194
• ISBN 13: 9789056912192
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 400