JavaScript seems to be disabled in your browser. You must have JavaScript enabled in your browser to utilize the functionality of this website. The greatest chess games of all time, selected, analysed, re-evaluated and explained by a team of British experts and illustrated with over 1, chess diagrams.
Join the authors in studying these games, the cream of two centuries of international chess, and develop your own chess-playing skills - whatever your current standard.
Instructive points at the end of each game highlight the lessons to be learned. Wesley So is the reigning Fischer Random World. The greatest chess games of all time, selected, analysed, re-evaluated and explained by a team of British experts and illustrated with over 1, chess diagrams. Join the authors in studying these games, the cream of two centuries of international chess, and develop your own chess-playing skills - whatever your.
This new and expanded edition contains the greatest chess games of all time--selected, analyzed, re-evaluated and explained by a team of experts and illustrated with more than diagrams. Covering great chess games, this book analyzes and re-evaluates them, and provides instructive points at the end of each game.
Community Reviews. Showing Average rating 4. Rating details. More filters. Sort order. Oct 26, Paul Bryant rated it really liked it Shelves: all-kinds-of-everything. Movie cliche 17 : the chess game. In every film scene that involves a chess game, one player gazes at the board and makes a long range move with a queen or bishop which ends up next to the other guy's king, and he - or she - says "Mate".
And the opponent looks suitably amazed or bemused. This is a wretched lie and would never happen in real life. Okay, it might happen if you're playing a seven year old. Anyone else can see the mate looming at least two or three moves before it happens, and wil Movie cliche 17 : the chess game.
Anyone else can see the mate looming at least two or three moves before it happens, and will wriggle and writhe, and will finally accept the inevitable and will resign, with grace or if your initials are PB with tetchiness. Unless the mate is particularly elegant this might happen maybe once every three years , you do not wait for it to be administered. Why would you? By resigning two or three moves before the mate, you are acknowledging your opponent, it is a doffing of your cap, it is respect.
And also you are saying to him that you at least had the brains to understood what was about to happen. Movie directors, especially those crass enough to use chess as a symbol of crafty intrigue and deep thought, do not know this, or if they do, have enough contempt for their audience to assume they don't know this.
Movie directors do not think that anyone who watches their movies actually plays chess. The devil take them all. View all 14 comments. Apr 17, Manny rated it really liked it Shelves: games. This is a very good anthology of the greatest chess games of all time, but it does raise the question of what selection criteria to use. After a while, you realize that chess games are just another form of literature, and the criteria are in many ways similar to the ones you would, for example, use in a poetry anthology.
In particular, some games are included just because they are well known and have become part of chess culture, the way a poetry anthologist might include Tennyson's "The Charge This is a very good anthology of the greatest chess games of all time, but it does raise the question of what selection criteria to use. In particular, some games are included just because they are well known and have become part of chess culture, the way a poetry anthologist might include Tennyson's "The Charge of the Light Brigade".
I'm sorry if you happen to like this poem. Personally, I think it's dreadful, but everyone ought to know it, because it's quoted so often. So, here, we have the so-called "Evergreen Game", which might have been brilliant when it was played years ago, but now seems unbearably trite and obvious.
Everyone knows that you can play that kind of sacrificial attack. If I'd been on the black side in a three-minute encounter on the Internet Chess Club, I'd probably have responded "nice : gg" and asked for a rematch; I'd have forgotten about it within an hour. But, at the time it was played, it was remarkable, and it became an archetype which every serious chess player has looked at while they internalized those attacking skills.
Moving further towards the present, it's quite surprising to play through the game from the first match between Kasparov and Deep Blue, where Kasparov lets the machine take one of his pawns, and gets a strong attack in return.
Less than 20 years later, again, everyone knows what happens when you let a computer take one of your pawns. You may have a strong attack, which would quite likely win against a human, but the machine will be certain to find the defense, if there is one; most often, there is a line where it can come up with a miracle save. Here too, the machine manages to get its pieces coordinated just in time to save the day. But, when it happened, it was incredible.
I remember being shocked that anyone could do this to Kasparov, and the game is justly famous. I don't want to give the impression that it's all just history.
Far from it. Some of the games still amaze you, even if you're a strong player. For me, the standout is another Kasparov game, the one against Topalov ; I am one of many people who think this is the greatest game of all time. Facing a future world champion, Kasparov sacrifices a whole rook, to start a combination that is all of 20 moves deep, and chases Topalov's king to the other side of the board before he manages to catch the black queen.
And it's not all forcing moves. Calculating 20 checks in a row would be nothing special at this level; here, there are points in the combination where Kasparov plays a quiet move, relying on the fact that Topalov can't escape from the net. Kasparov claims he planned the whole sequence before he started.
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