This book take you through how he wins by analysing 60 of the games that made him who he is, describing the intricacies behind his and his opponent's strategies, the tactical justification of moves and the psychological battle in each one. In the same year the Norwegian claimed both the World Blitz and the World Rapid titles, which made him the first player in history simultaneously holding the world title in three different disciplines. In 2014 Carlsen defended his title by beating the Indian again: 6½-4½. He will defend his world championship title this autumn and if he wins, it will set a record of five championship match victories. Magnus Carlsen (1990) became World Chess Champion in 2013 by defeating Viswanathan Anand in a match with 6½-3½. This book details his remarkable rise and how he acquired the crucial skills of 21st-century grandmaster chess He is the only player to repeatedly win the world championships in classical, speed and blitz chess formats. Magnus Carlsen has been the world’s number one player for more than a decade, has won more super-tournaments than anyone ever and is still in his prime. Celia Hawkesworth has managed to translate these long sentences with ease and grace.Following on from the long success of one of the most important chess books ever written, Bobby Fischer: My 60 Memorable Games, renowned chess writer Andrew Soltis delivers a book on today's blockbuster chess player Magnus Carlsen. the narrative abandons suicide to get into homicide of many chess players under the Nazi and Soveit regimes, and from there we are drawn into the world of careerism, betrayal, assassination, and mass murder. I am tempted to skim through the passages about the protagonist to get to the astonishing history, which reads like a collective noir. “The complex narrative tapestry is a marvel. “What makes ’s book fascinating is that he uses it to reflect on what it was like to have been defeated by a machine and on the more general implications of that experience … Even for readers with only a passing interest in chess, it’s an absorbing, page-turning thriller that weaves a personal account of intellectual combat with the wider picture of what it’s like to come up against a powerful corporation that is determined to do whatever it takes to crush opposition.”ĭaša Drndić translated by Celia Hawkesworth, EEG Garry Kasparov, Deep Thinking: Where Machine Intelligence Ends and Human Creativity Begins “ is one of Zweig’s most horrifying investigations into monomania and at the same time a parable of the dangers inherent in engaging with Nazism.” Stefan Zweig translated by Joel Rotenberg, Chess Story, or The Royal Game ‘It’s tricky to explain the appeal of chess to someone who doesn’t play,’ Chapin concedes, yet he makes all the right moves in doing just that.” To tame it as well as Canadian journalist Sasha Chapin does in All the Wrong Moves, you’ll need an obscure but preferably universal target of obsession-chess mastery, in his case. Sasha Chapin, All the Wrong Moves: A Memoir About Chess, Love, and Ruining Everything an entertaining book that contains everything you never imagined you wanted to know about chess.” It’s a bravura performance by the author. “Butler goes beyond the and the two competitors to investigate spectators, journalists, other prodigies and the fates they’d met, those who knew Bobby Fisher, and other aspects of the interrelationship between chess and New York.
A classic conte, with a brilliant descriptive elegance and all the impalpable tension and hushed fascination of a grandmaster’s game.”īrin-Jonathan Butler, The Grandmaster: Magnus Carlsen and the Match that Made Chess Great Again
“ sibilant, dazzling tale by the writer who has been defined as the leading fabulist of our time.