Kasparov: How His Predecessors Misled Him About Chess (eBook)

Over the past few years the great chess player Garry Kasparov has written five best-selling books praising the contributions to chess made by the previousworld champions. The series is called ''My Great Predecessors''. As a reaction tothis wonderful series of books, leading chess writer Tibor Krolyi has written thisimaginary sixth volume. In gently humorous - but chessically serious - style, theauthor imagines Kasparov is annotating over 70 of his own lost games, andblaming all these defeats on the bad influence of each of the previous worldchampions, providing in-depth analysis to show how he was misled by them.The book also serves as a highly instructive, practical chess book - to beatKasparov, the greatest player of all time, took some pretty special chess, andreaders will enjoy learning from this. It is astonishing how the author hasmanaged to find so many games that exhibit uncanny similarities betweenKasparov and his predecessors, which makes the content of the book extremelyplausible - as if Kasparov himself were writing it. This is a brilliant and totallyoriginal chess book that could only have been written by someone with greatknowledge of Kasparov and the past world champions.