Timman's Triumphs - Jan Timman
My 100 Best Games
KORTE INHOUD
Jan Timman is one of the greatest chess players never to win the world title. For many years ‘the Best of the West’ belonged to the chess elite, collecting quite a few super tournament victories. Three times Timman was a Candidate for the World Championship and his peak in the world rankings was second place, in 1982.
For this definitive collection, Timman has revisited his career and subjected his finest efforts to fresh analysis supported by modern technology. The result is startling and fascinating. From the games that he chose for his Timman’s Selected Games (1994, also published as Chess the Adventurous Way), only 10(!) made the cut. Some games that he had been proud of turned out to be flawed, others that he remembered as messy were actually well played.
Timman’s Triumphs includes wins against great players such as Karpov, Kasparov, Kortchnoi, Smyslov, Tal, Spassky, Bronstein, Larsen and Topalov. The annotations are in the author’s trademark lucid style, a happy mix of colourful background information and...
For this definitive collection, Timman has revisited his career and subjected his finest efforts to fresh analysis supported by modern technology. The result is startling and fascinating. From the games that he chose for his Timman’s Selected Games (1994, also published as Chess the Adventurous Way), only 10(!) made the cut. Some games that he had been proud of turned out to be flawed, others that he remembered as messy were actually well played.
Timman’s Triumphs includes wins against great players such as Karpov, Kasparov, Kortchnoi, Smyslov, Tal, Spassky, Bronstein, Larsen and Topalov. The annotations are in the author’s trademark lucid style, a happy mix of colourful background information and...
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2020 Uitgever: De Vrije Uitgevers 352 paginas Taal: Engels Grootte: 237x173x23 ISBN-10: 9056919172 ISBN-13: 9789056919177Koop dit boek tweedehands
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De Engelstalige editie met Jan Timman's 100 beste partijen. Met uitgebreide analyses van de schaker zelf en naar schatting ten minste 600 diagrammen. Voorin naam en exlibrisstempel van de vorige eigenaar; 2020; New in Chess; 336 pagina's; Titel: Timman's Triumphs - My 100 Best Games; Ref: 236396 / H24F205
