Calculate Like a Grandmaster: Learn from the World-Class Attacking Players

• Learn the calculation secrets of the world's best attacking players
• First book from one of the UK's biggest chess stars
• Illustrated with a wealth of examples from top-level chess games
This first book from one of the UK's top grandmasters is a penetrating and detailed (though engaging and friendly) study of typical games played by the most exciting chess players of the modern era, those that are renowned as 'attacking' players, from Mikhail Tal, pioneering hero of the ultra-modern attacking style, to Magnus Carlsen, teenage leader of the 'new wave' of deadly attackers, via the immortal Bobby Fischer, 'boa constrictor' Anatoly Karpov and 'King Garry' Kasparov. The author has tried to get into the heads of these stellar players, revealing the secrets of how they choose their decisive moves and succeed in delivering such awesome attacks.
This inspiring book encourages you to play more imaginatively and copy the grandmasters' thought processes in your own game.

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Calculate Like a Grandmaster: Learn from the World-Class Attacking Players

• Learn the calculation secrets of the world's best attacking players
• First book from one of the UK's biggest chess stars
• Illustrated with a wealth of examples from top-level chess games
This first book from one of the UK's top grandmasters is a penetrating and detailed (though engaging and friendly) study of typical games played by the most exciting chess players of the modern era, those that are renowned as 'attacking' players, from Mikhail Tal, pioneering hero of the ultra-modern attacking style, to Magnus Carlsen, teenage leader of the 'new wave' of deadly attackers, via the immortal Bobby Fischer, 'boa constrictor' Anatoly Karpov and 'King Garry' Kasparov. The author has tried to get into the heads of these stellar players, revealing the secrets of how they choose their decisive moves and succeed in delivering such awesome attacks.
This inspiring book encourages you to play more imaginatively and copy the grandmasters' thought processes in your own game.

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Calculate Like a Grandmaster: Learn from the World-Class Attacking Players

Calculate Like a Grandmaster: Learn from the World-Class Attacking Players

by Daniel Gormally
Calculate Like a Grandmaster: Learn from the World-Class Attacking Players

Calculate Like a Grandmaster: Learn from the World-Class Attacking Players

by Daniel Gormally

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Overview

• Learn the calculation secrets of the world's best attacking players
• First book from one of the UK's biggest chess stars
• Illustrated with a wealth of examples from top-level chess games
This first book from one of the UK's top grandmasters is a penetrating and detailed (though engaging and friendly) study of typical games played by the most exciting chess players of the modern era, those that are renowned as 'attacking' players, from Mikhail Tal, pioneering hero of the ultra-modern attacking style, to Magnus Carlsen, teenage leader of the 'new wave' of deadly attackers, via the immortal Bobby Fischer, 'boa constrictor' Anatoly Karpov and 'King Garry' Kasparov. The author has tried to get into the heads of these stellar players, revealing the secrets of how they choose their decisive moves and succeed in delivering such awesome attacks.
This inspiring book encourages you to play more imaginatively and copy the grandmasters' thought processes in your own game.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781849940962
Publisher: Batsford, B.T. Ltd.
Publication date: 01/11/2013
Series: Batsford Chess
Sold by: Bookwire
Format: eBook
Pages: 288
File size: 16 MB
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Age Range: 18 Years

About the Author

Daniel Gormally is one of the UK's top grandmasters. He represented England in the Chess Olympics in 2006 and has published articles in the world's top chess magazines New In Chess and Chess. This is his first book. He lives in Alnwick, Northumberland.

Table of Contents

Introduction 5

Chapter 1 Tal and the tree of plenty 7

Chapter 2 Self Handicapping 35

Chapter 3 Simply Shirov 65

Chapter 4 Topalov and the age of computers 98

Chapter 5 The magic of Moro 124

Chapter 6 Vishy Anand - Speed Superstar 162

Chapter 7 Bobby, the two K's and Les Enfants Terribles 186

Chapter 8 My own experience 219

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