FREE GARRY KASPAROV ON MY GREAT PREDECESSORS: PT. 5 PDF Garry Kasparov | 580 pages | 30 Mar 2006 | EVERYMAN CHESS | 9781857444049 | English | London, United Kingdom Garry Kasparov on My Great Predecessors, Part 5 by Garry Kasparov Uh-oh, it looks like your Internet Explorer is out of date. For a better shopping experience, please upgrade now. Javascript is not enabled in your browser. Enabling JavaScript in your browser will allow you to experience all the features of our site. Learn how to enable JavaScript on your browser. Home 1 Books 2. Add to Wishlist. Sign in to Purchase Instantly. Members save with free shipping everyday! See details. Overview This book, the fifth in Garry Kasparov's magnificent history of the World Chess Championship, catalogues the "post-Fischer" period in the s Garry Kasparov on My Great Predecessors: Pt. 5 early s. This period was dominated by the Anatoly Karpov world champion from to and his three-time challenger, Viktor Korchnoi. 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This book, the fifth in Garry Kasparov's magnificent history of the World Chess Championship, catalogues the "post-Fischer" period in the s and early s. This period was dominated by the Anatoly Karpov world champion from to and his three-time challenger, Viktor Korchnoi. Anatoly Karpov gained the right to challenge Bobby Fischer for the world title by wi This book, the fifth in Garry Kasparov's magnificent history of the World Chess Championship, catalogues the "post-Fischer" period in the s and early s. Anatoly Karpov gained the right to challenge Bobby Fischer for the world title by winning through the Candidates series in As is well known, Fischer refused to defend the title and in Karpov became champion "by default. In this book, a must for all serious chess players Kasparov analyzes deeply Karpov's greatest games and assesses the legacy of this great Russian genius. Also under the microscope are the games of Viktor Korchnoi who was at his peak during this period and twice challenged Karpov for his world title. Get A Copy. Hardcoverpages. More Details Original Title. My Great Predecessors 5. Other Editions 2. Friend Reviews. To see what your friends thought of this book, please sign up. Lists with This Book. This book is not yet featured on Listopia. Community Reviews. Showing Average rating 4. Rating details. More filters. Sort order. Nov 20, Manny rated it it was amazing Shelves: gameshistory-and-biography. We're now up to Karpov, and the tone of the series becomes very personal. They played five matches for the world championship, all of which were extremely close, and many bitter words were said on both sides. These matches will be described later, in Volume 7. Here, we're getting the rest of Karpov's brilliant career. There's so much material that I can only give a few highlights; if you're fond of We're now up to Karpov, and the tone of the series becomes very personal. There's so much material that I can only give a few highlights; if you're fond of chess history, and have been following the story, you'll find any amount of stuff to amuse and instruct. First of all, and I couldn't help feeling it was partly to annoy Karpov, he makes him share the book with Viktor Korchnoi. The three matches Karpov played with Korchnoi were not quite as hard-fought as the ones against Kasparov, but the off-board antics have become myth, and provided a large part of the story behind Chess, The Musical. Kasparov has some wonderful anecdotes, several of which Garry Kasparov on My Great Predecessors: Pt. 5 hadn't heard before, which center around Korchnoi's legendary paranoia. Karpov's team included a psychologist, Dr. Zukhar, Garry Kasparov on My Great Predecessors: Pt. 5 main function was to help Karpov with his sleep problems. Korchnoi became convinced that Zukhar was a psychic, whose real job was to hypnotise him into playing badly. Karpov, a great pragmatist, decided that he would exploit this. So they told Zukhar to seat himself during the games so that he was as visible as possible to Korchnoi, and then stare at him continuously for the whole five hours of play. Zukhar took his new position very seriously, Garry Kasparov on My Great Predecessors: Pt. 5 abstained from drinking anything with his lunch he even skipped the soupso that he wouldn't have to take bathroom breaks. It worked. Korchnoi expended a great deal of energy countering the imaginary threat; this may have been the critical factor when he unexpectedly recovered from down tobut was unable to win the last game. The anecdote I liked most, though, was from the early 90s. Tal, one of the key people on Karpov's team and notorious for his sense of humour, met Korchnoi at a tournament. If you had, the KGB had all the plans in place. You'd immediately have been eliminated. Behind everything, you feel Fischer's presence. Kasparov is tormented by the unanswerable question of what would have happened if he'd defended his title against Karpov. If only Karpov had beaten Fischer! Kasparov beat Karpov, and that would give him a clear right to style himself The Greatest Player Ever. Alas, Fischer refused to play, and no one will ever really know why. Kasparov keeps trying to show that Fischer chickened out, because he thought Karpov's chances were too good. He describes the years of work by all the top Russian Grandmaster, preparing for the match that never happened. Karpov was armed to the teeth with the fruits of a whole country's research. He quotes Petrosian, who said that Fischer's favourite opening lines had all been refuted by But Fischer, like no one else, could create new openings when he needed them; this is the man who took the Exchange Ruy Lopez, which had been considered harmless for 50 years, and turned it into a deadly weapon. And he never asked anyone for Garry Kasparov on My Great Predecessors: Pt. 5. Karpov and Kasparov were incredibly strong players, but Fischer was just in a class by himself, even if he wasn't completely sane. As the English chess humourist Bill Hartston said, the only human being you can sensibly Garry Kasparov on My Great Predecessors: Pt.