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JavaScript scheint in Ihrem Browser deaktiviert zu sein. For the best experience on our site, be sure to turn on Javascript in your browser. Auflage Autor Alik Gershon Igor Nor. San Luis How Chess found its Champion. Eigenschaften Sonderangebot. In den Warenkorb. Skip to the end of the images gallery. Skip to the beginning of the images gallery. This book about the World Championship marks the return of outstanding tournament books, and is about a truly outstanding chess tournament. San Luis was the chess tournament of the decade. In this ambitious work Alik Gershon and Igor Nor analyse and explain all the games from the tournament. Their in-depth coverage of the occasion and the many colour photographs of the event and Argentinean scenery give the reader the sensation of actually having been present at the tournament. Alik Gershon is a chess grandmaster from Israel. He has been a junior World Champion twice, and is a former Israeli Champion. Igor Nor is a highly respected Israeli chess trainer. Foreword by Veselin Topalov The world championship in San Luis was one of the most difficult, tense, hard-fought and important tournaments I have ever played and because of this it was undoubtedly the most rewarding victory in my chess career. By the end of the tournament I was exhausted both physically and emotionally, but today I can look back and San Luis 2005: How Chess Found Its Champion that all the effort my team and I have made in the last years proved itself in this tournament. The world championship is the right place for any player to show his best in the very tensest situation. From that point of view I am very satisfied with my level in the tournament. I did not play the San Luis 2005: How Chess Found Its Champion beautiful games of my career, but I think my level of play was high. At this point it is the right place to express my gratitude to all the people who supported me before the tournament and during the course of it and helped me to achieve this level, especially my trainer and manager Silvio Danailov and my second in the past year Ivan Cheparinov. Two critical games of the event I will remember the most are the win in the first round, when Leko and I were both very nervous and made mistakes, and the win against Svidler, which put me one and a half points ahead of my pursuers. After this I had a clear tournament advantage, even though it brought a lot of pressure and forced me to play stronger and stronger in order not to waste it. Browsing through the pages of this book I relive the tension that could be felt in the playing hall. I can feel the pressure on each player's shoulders, the concerns, the doubts - move after move, decision after decision, and I am very happy that the authors stood up to the challenge, were not misled by the players' names and Elo's, and managed to compose such detailed and objective analysis, which is worthy of the games played in San Luis. Based on this tournament, the double round robin formal seems to be a great idea for finding the world champion. Almost all the games in this tournament saw uncompromising battles, from start to end. All the players made their best San Luis 2005: How Chess Found Its Champion, without taking time-outs with short draws, and San Luis 2005: How Chess Found Its Champion the end of the day we managed to produce many memorable games, novelties, moves and blunders. It is the kind of chess that has a future and can bring more and more fans to our game. It is the chess I love, and this is what makes me especially happy and proud to be the winner of such an event. Veselin Topalov, Spain, August Schwerlich stemmt sich das gedruckte Wort gegen die Schnelllebigkeit unserer Zeit. Die aktuellen Ereignisse lassen sich zumeist live im Internet verfolgen. Analysen werden zeitnah nachgereicht und man kann sich direkt mit Gleichgesinnten auf diversen Plattformen austauschen, falls offene Fragen vorhanden sind. Es besticht durch grandiose Analysen aller gespielten Partien. Beispielsweise wird eine der besten Turnierpartien, Swidler gegen San Luis 2005: How Chess Found Its Champion, auf 15 Seiten besprochen. So inhaltsreich sind die Partien dieser WM nirgends sonst besprochen worden. Wichtige Anmerkungen zu Zeitnot, Zustand der Spieler z. Swidler absolvierte ein phantastisches Turnier, doch seine grandiose Leistung stand im Schatten von Topalows herkulanischen Taten. Topalov - A. Man muss auch Mo-rosewitsch loben, dass er seine Chance mit solcher Phantasie suchte und seinen Gegner zum Fehler verleitete. Df6 3. Td7 Dg5, und nur nach dem ruhigen Zug 4. Dg3 5. Dg1 Sf1 7. Kh7 9. Kh2 De5 Dd6, und es gibt keine Tricks mehr 6. Te7 Sf3 muss Schwarz sein Scheitern eingestehen, da es nur noch einige Schachs gibt. Lc4 mit Gewinn. Tc5, was die unangenehme Drohung De7 aufstellt. Auf den Schwarzzug Se4 folgt einfach Tc2. Dxd2 3. Ld5 Dg5 4. Dd6 Dd8 5. Dxd8 Txd8 6. Le8 Kg7 San Luis 2005: How Chess Found Its Champion. Kg1 Td2 Txh5 Kf1 Kg7 Kg1 Kf8 Der Hauptteil des Buches besteht aus Kapiteln zu den einzelnen Runden. Die Partiekommentare enthalten erfreulich viel Text, sodass sich das Werk auch als Lesebuch eignet. OktoberSan Luis, Argentinien. Bei der Schachweltmeisterschaft hat der Bulgare Veselin Topalov in der soeben beendeten 7. Die zahlreichen Fotos im Buch sind ausnahmslos in Farbe und das gesamte Buch wurde auf Hochglanzpapier gedruckt! Absolut zu empfehlen. San Luis 2005: How Chess Found Its Champion freundlicher Genehmigung Martin Rieger, freechess. Um es gleich vorweg zu sagen: Der Versuch ist mehr als gelungen und dabei hat Quality seinem Namen alle Ehre gemacht! Doch weitaus beeindruckender sind die rund Farbfotos von den Teilnehmern, ihrem Umfeld und der umgebenden Landschaft. Auch andere Aspekte des Turniers werden dem Leser nahegebracht. Der Klassiker, den man schon heute kaufen kann! Mit freundl. Mehr von Quality. The French Defence, Vol. Landesmeisterschaften 4 Artikel. Offene Turniere 1 item. Olympiaden 4 Artikel. Schachkongress 9 Artikel. Weltmeisterschaften 36 Artikel. Alik Gershon Igor Nor. San Luis by Alik Gershon It was won by Veselin Topalov. It used normal slow time controls unlike the and knockout tournamentsand changed the format to an eight-player, double round-robin event, where every player plays every other player twice, once with each colour. Kramnik refused to play see Aftermath section belowas did the recently retired Kasparov. The opening ceremony took place on September 27, the matches started on September 28, and the closing ceremony took place on October He then drew every one of his games in the second cycle, clinching the victory with one round to spare. Kramnik announced before the tournament that he should not be required to compete; but that as part of the "Prague Agreement", [4] his defense of his title in the Classical World Chess Championship entitled him to direct entry to a match against the FIDE World Champion for the unified world title. Although Topalov initially declined Kramnik's offer, [7] he later acceded. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Those champsionships however involved over a hundred players. Archived from the original on Retrieved List of openings theory table List of chess San Luis 2005: How Chess Found Its Champion Irregular Fool's mate Scholar's San Luis 2005: How Chess Found Its Champion. Bishop and knight checkmate King and pawn vs king Opposite-coloured bishops Pawnless endgame Queen and pawn vs queen Queen vs pawn Rook and bishop vs rook Rook and pawn vs rook Lucena position Philidor position Strategy fortress opposition Tarrasch rule triangulation Zugzwang Study Tablebase Two knights endgame Wrong bishop Wrong rook pawn. Chess portal Category. World Chess Championships. Book Category Portal. Namespaces Article Talk. Views Read Edit View history. Help Learn to edit Community portal Recent changes Upload file. Download as PDF Printable version. San Luis : Alik Gershon :

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After such a response from the critics it was not a surprise that the book unanimously won highest honour in chess publishing, the English Chess Federations book of the year. But as we shall learn below, the authors in no way thought the deal was in the bag. San Luis is clearly a labour of love, but also a monster in terms of the effort put into it. What brought about this book? From where did the project arise? It was a very unusual day when two old friends had, quite unexpectedly, the same positive mood. Alik Gershon: Yeah, back then I was running a Hebrew chess website, and the idea of being the first ever to conduct a unique, real time analysis of a major event in Hebrew looked San Luis 2005: How Chess Found Its Champion. Fortunately, we both have quite an exhaustive in commenting chess, not to mention of working together. So those problems were successfully solved, mostly by way of ignoring them, and getting some sleep hours, that would surely be missed for the period to come. Igor Nor: At some point, after a few rounds, we discovered an interesting San Luis 2005: How Chess Found Its Champion people liked what we did. Alik Gershon: Speaking ahead, this strange feeling of people appreciating our work much more than in our most optimistic prognoses become the normal condition. But at the time we were happy to see thousands of visitors on the website and printouts of the analysis in most unexpected places some chess clubs, for instancevarious forums discussions on the subject etc. In fact it was very exciting to see chess players sitting with the printouts and checking every San Luis 2005: How Chess Found Its Champion idea we had during night analysis the games, as you might recall, were played at night in Europe. Igor Nor: Then after the tournament some very good friends of ours said very strictly that either we should make a book or someone else will, with our analysis. So immediately after the end of the championship we somehow found ourselves in the middle of making our first book. This book could resemble the greatest San Luis 2005: How Chess Found Its Champion of Anatoly Karpov, where he would simply be solving problems as they were coming, but from outside it might look like there was this deep plan…. Alik Gershon: …. Alik Gershon: Well… he agreed to see some of our analysis, but at the same time he did his best not to give us extra hopes, to say the least. This might be an appropriate moment to mention that the team of Quality Chess did not only help us a lot during the writing, but also were very straightforward in all aspects, including the economical one. Sadly enough, this is a kind of rarity, but one we would be happy to meet as much as possible. Igor Nor: Absolutely. As we waited, I was trying to convince Alik and myself that the book was almost ready and we only need to translate it to English. The World Championship tournament in San Luis Looking back, translating was the least difficult thing. The point is that when I have completely adopted to the free style of life in Israel, my friend is, unfortunately, one of the successors of the old Russian chess-school. Meaning, there has always been only one reason for which the analysis could be paused and it is complete inability of the participants to continue. And this pause exists only in order to continue on the next day, and so on, until the mission is complete. So when we got a positive San Luis 2005: How Chess Found Its Champion from Jacob, for me it felt like going to chess-prison for a while. Igor Nor: Well, Alik exaggerates, of course. How was it San Luis 2005: How Chess Found Its Champion write a book together? What were the advantages and what were the disadvantages? He brought his knowledge, and the guy read a book or two in his life in fact, he is reading everything he can get, including all possible websites. Spooky, really. I tried to concentrate more on the struggling parts of San Luis 2005: How Chess Found Its Champion games and the endgames. So for me the main disadvantage was that we had too many debates that made me work real hard to be able to prove my opinion. Igor Nor: For me it was very positive. In a good sense, of course. Paradoxically, the general approach to the book was clear. Igor has a lot of tournament books…. Alik Gershon: So we just tried San Luis 2005: How Chess Found Its Champion adopt the best things from all books we saw, and add our special touch with sugar on top. Which games would you single out as the most important in the tournament, and what were the deciding moments? Strictly speaking, no one understood it. From the point the theory finished until the end, it San Luis 2005: How Chess Found Its Champion like all the commentators were walking in the dark, mostly trying to guess what was going on. The temptation to adopt this approach was big no one will even try to refute itbut we decided to go very slowly, move after move and discover the ideas behind each and every move. Other games that were absolutely disastrous for analysing were those of Alexander Morozevich. He usually plays so technically, but complex and unforcing chess. To work out what is going on is always difficult. Morozevich-Polgar was a game it took a lot of time to make sense of. You are both from Israel and speak Russian. How was the experience of writing in English? One could imagine that it did not come naturally? Igor Nor: Alik is generally better in languages, except Russian. The gap between us in English is pretty substantial, so he sometimes had to translate me into a better English. Alik Gershon: Yes, and after this translation, the Quality Chess guys translated it again from my good English to something, lets say, more traditional, something other people would understand as San Luis 2005: How Chess Found Its Champion. We think that the editing was very impressive. Peter Svidler at a press conference, with Rustam Kasimdzhanov in the background. Igor Nor: Completely agree. But most of them were chess related, so we even thought for a moment that the language was ok. Then John Shaw got to work and the result is twofold: the book became a success and John hates us now. But it is important to mention that the book we got so many complements for is a common work of many people, not only the authors. San Luis has been compared by many to Zurich and is according to a former British Champion the best chess book he has ever seen. What do you think about this reception and to what extend did you expect it? I think this is the book we both like the most and we strongly believe those comparisons are not San Luis 2005: How Chess Found Its Champion place. Bronstein of those days was one of the best players in the world and this probably puts an end to this discussion. But, of course, having such an amazing example of a tournament book could not help but influence our writing. And to me, the very fact people speak of these two books in the same breath is already a fantastic achievement for us. Again, we took all the best from other books, and some of our ideas and used all the modern utilities to show the tournament from its best side. More interesting is the expectation about this book. While trying your best book, even having a huge experience of reading, you can never know what, in fact, will be the reaction. Alik Gershon: San Luis 2005: How Chess Found Its Champion at the end a lot of them were left out of the book. So I was right…. Igor Nor: Only partially: it is easier to remove things when you have found the truth than the opposite… Anyway, we are not so young anymore and it was clear we are not the first to think how to make the book the most interesting for the readers. So there is a good chance we also will not be the first to fail to do so. For us it meant that if we will be good enough to make ourselves happy about this book, there will hopefully be other people who will not be able to ignore such a serious effort. Alexander Morozevich in San Luis. Alik Gershon: And you can take our word for it, that to make us happy, especially one of us, is such a difficult task, that the Freddie assumption had to work in this case. After all this, we were just too tired to think the book could fail. This is your first chess book. With the reception it has received it is natural to ask if you are wanting to go on further adventures in the world of chess writing, or if you have had enough. Alik Gershon: In fact at this moment we have interesting ideas, but I still need to be convinced that working on those projects is not going to ruin our personal lives. Let us go back a bit. You speak about old tournament books and about taking what is best from these for San Luis Why do you think that tournament books went out of fashion, and do you think that the success of San Luis marks the beginning of a revival? Alik Gershon: In Russian those books never stopped. And probably another reason is that in those years Kasparov dominated so mightily that most of the matches were irrelevant from the sporting point of view. Peter Svidler, the Grandmaster from St Petersburg. The immodest answer is that no one wanted to work hard enough to make his book a qualitative one. It seems that there are too many authors that are convinced that it is enough they are writing something to attract people. At the same time I must admit that in my opinion the tournament books are to be rated above all other chess books. My first trainer always told me not to copy any opening top players use unless they do it in the most important events.