Instructive Modern Chess Masterpieces

Stohl, Igor

ISBN 10: 1901983420 / ISBN 13: 9781901983425

Published by Gambit, 2001

About this Item

Softcover. Good binding and cover. Clean, unmarked pages.

Seller Inventory # 2604190177

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Instructive Modern Chess Masterpieces
• Publisher: Gambit
• Publication Date: 2001
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1901983420
• ISBN 13: 9781901983425
• Binding: paperback
• Condition: Very Good
• Weight: 21 ounces
• Seller catalogs:
  • Chess

About this title

Synopsis

Igor Stohl has selected 50 outstanding games from recent years and analyzed them in painstaking depth. Here he presents his findings to chess enthusiasts, who will find the games entertaining and the annotations both instructive and illuminating. Stohl is an outstanding theoretical expert, so the opening phase of each game reads like a lesson in the key strategic aspects of the opening played, with an up-to-date survey of current trends. The middlegame is dissected and the critical decisions subjected to scrutiny by an author who invites readers inside his laboratory to join him in his quest for the truth. The endgame phase, if reached, is handled with similar erudition, with insights into the grandmaster's approach to questions of technique.

About the Author

Igor Stohl is a well-known grandmaster from Slovakia, who was runner-up in the World Junior Championship in 1982. He plays in several national leagues and is a noted opening theoretician. His thorough annotations frequently appear in Ceskoslovensky Sach, Informator and ChessBase Magazine. See also Garry Kasparov's Greatest Chess Games, volume 1.