Tigran Petrosian is a titan of chess history. All agree he was a genius of strategy, defence and sacrifice, but didn’t he take too many draws? Possibly so, but when Petrosian selected and annotated his best games, that flaw disappeared, leaving only brilliance and profound chess understanding. As Garry Kasparov said: “My games with the 9th World Champion broadened my understanding of chess. Had it not been for these two defeats, I would possibly not have reached the top in chess."
This book is an English translation of a Russian classic that is a favourite of many grandmasters, including Mihail Marin and Levon Aronian. A literal translation of the Russian title might be ‘The Strategy of Soundness’ but Python Strategy is a better fit for Petrosian’s more ambitious games. As another World Champion, Max Euwe, once wrote: “Petrosian is not a tiger that pounces on its prey, but rather a python that smothers its victim."
Tigran Petrosian was World Champion from 1963 to 1969, as well as a superb team player for the Soviet Union. In Olympiads he won nine team gold medals and six individual gold medals, winning 78 games, drawing 50 and losing just once.
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004 Biographical Data & Key to symbols used
005 Editor’s Foreword by Oleg Stetsko
006 Compiler’s Foreword by Eduard Shekhtman
007 The Logic of Talent by Nikolai Krogius
010 The Man I Knew by Svetozar Gligoric
014 A Journey Across the Street by Nikolai Tarasov
Selected Games
021 1945-1948
031 1949-1951
051 1952-1953
068 1954-1956
092 1957-1958
117 1959-1960
148 1961-1962
166 1963
196 1964-1965
207 1966
231 1967-1968
241 1969
272 1970-1972
314 1973-1974
327 1975-1978
350 1979-1982
369 Appendix – Under the Microscope of the Computer by Karsten Mueller
381 Game Index
384 Name Index
387 Index of Openings
388 Petrosian’s Tournament and Match Results
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