Averbakh's Selected Games
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| Rating | : | 4.98 (653 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1857445481 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 192 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-11-19 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
Russian grandmaster, Yuri Averbakh has selec ted the most interesting and instructive games from his weal th of experience. '. Players are guaranteed to be insipred by t hese classic games and detailed annotations
Well-annotated game collection by leading 50s player Dr. J. Sarfati The author rightly says 'this book should have been published at least a quarter of a century ago'. Yuri Averbakh (b. 1922) was probably one of the world's top dozen players in the 1950s. He qualified for the immensely strong Candidates tournament at Z�rich, 1953 (10th), and convincingly won the USSR Championship the following year, and narrowly lost the playoff after a tie in 1956. As he . Outstanding collection of annotated games. A.J. Goldsby I Most (younger) players today don't even know who Averbakh is, at least as far as I can gather from a few conversations on-line with various chess players.Here is a player who competed in 15 Soviet Championship Tournaments in the span, 1949-1969. (Something of a record.) He won the Premier Championship in 1954. His score, with more wins than draws, (+ 10, = 9, - 0!); has few parallels in the history . "Exciting chess, great writing" according to A Customer. This is a beautiful book, and I find Averbakh to be a great writer. He explains things clearly in a manner that the intermediate player can understand, in a way that can help you improve. This book actually improved the way I analyzed games. And there are many great wins against the world's best players at the time. This book deserves a five-star review, even if Averbakh was not a world champ. How ma
No player can fail to be inspired by these classic games and Averbakh's detailed annotations. This informative and entertaining book includes descriptions of games against world champions, details of expertly played endgames, insights into successful training techniques, and explanations of Averbakh's contributions to opening theory. Yuri Averbakh was one of the leading Soviet grandmasters for two decades, competing in the USSR Championship 15 times between 1949 and 1969. From the Back CoverYuri Averbakh is a distinguished Russian grandmaster who has enjoyed a long and varied career as a top-class player, endgame theoretician, judge of chess composition, writer, editor and arbiter. He finished in an extremely respectable 10th place