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Contents
007 Foreword by Victor Korchnoi
009 1 Smyslov, 20th USSR Championship, Moscow 1952
012 2 Filip, Bucharest 1954
016 3 Krogius, 25th USSR Championship, Riga 1958
019 4 Polugayevsky, 27th USSR Championship, Leningrad 1960
023 5 Geller, 27th USSR Championship, Leningrad 1960
027 6 Simagin, USSR Central Chess Club International Tournament, Moscow 1960
030 7 Fischer, World Championship Candidates Tournament, Curagao 1962
032 8 Trifunovic, Havana 1963
036 9 Lein, 32nd USSR Championship, Kiev 1964/65
040 10 Matanovic, Hamburg 1965
046 11 Averbakh, Yerevan 1965
050 12 Bronstein, International Tournament, Moscow 1971
055 13 Taimanov, Leningrad Championship 1973
060 14 Larsen, Interzonal Tournament, Leningrad 1973
063 15 Savon, 41st USSR Championship, Moscow 1973
067 16 Planinc, International Tournament, Moscow 1975
070 17 Hug, Zurich 1978
072 18 Andersson, Sao Paulo 1979
077 19 Bischoff, Lugano Open 1982
081 20 Torre, Olympiad, Luzern 1982
085 21 Van der Sterren, Wijk aan Zee 1984
088 22 P. Nikolic, Wijk aan Zee 1984
092 23 Timman, Tilburg 1985
098 24 Nunn, World Team Championship, Luzern 1985
101 25 Grünfeld, Brussels 1985
104 26 Van der Wiel, Brussels 1986
107 27 H. Olafsson, Reykjavik 1987
109 28 Larsen, Brussels 1987
112 29 A. Sokolov, Tilburg 1987
115 30 Miles, Lugano Open 1989
120 31 De Firmian, Lugano Open 1989
124 32 Ivanchuk, Tilburg 1989
127 33 Ribli, Barcelona 1989
131 34 I. Sokolov, Barcelona 1992
136 35 Xu Jun, Interzonal Tournament, Biel 1993
141 36 Serper, Groningen PCA 1993
145 37 Lautier, Team Championship, Switzerland 1994
149 38 Karpov, Dortmund 1994
153 39 Gelfand, Horgen 1994
156 40 San Segundo, Madrid 1995
160 41 Curt Hansen, Malmö 1996
164 42 Kupreichik, Münster Open 1996
168 43 Golubev, Münster Open 1996
172 44 Belyavsky, Pula 1997
176 45 Epishin, Hamburg 1997
181 46 Kurajica, Sarajevo 1998
185 47 Lobron, Bad Homburg 1998
188 48 Gabriel, Zurich 1999
194 49 Lalic, Calcutta 2000
198 50 Christiansen, Reykjavik 2000
203 Index of Openings
204 Index of Opponents |
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Catalogue text:
For almost half a century grandmaster Victor Korchnoi has been one of the world's leading chess players, and even today he remains a formidable competitor. This new collection covers his entire career.
Korchnoi's annotations are honest, detailed, and instructive. This volume gives his besf games as Black, with which he has always excelled as a determined defender, ready, when the opportunity presents itself, to switch to counterattack. The author pays particular attention to the psychological role of the defender, which helps to explain why, throughout his career, he has won as many games with Black as he has with White.
Volume 1 with his best games with White is already available. His biography ,,Chess is My Life" (ISBN 3-283-00406-4) will be published as volume 3 of the Korchnoi series in spring 2002.
Korchnoi's annotations are honest, detailed, and instructive. This volume gives his best games as Black, with which he has always excelled as a determinded defender, ready, when the opportunity presents itself, to switch to counterattack. The author pays particular attention to the psychological role of the defender, which helps to explain why, throughout his career, he has won as many games with Black as he has with White.
The British Chess Magazine: ,,The First volume of this two-volume work was reviewed in BCM, July 2001 and it is fair to describe it as a rave review. Since then, Volume one has gone on to pick up the British Chess Federation's prestigious Book of the Year award. Korchnoi has been around for ever and played and beaten everyone, from the stars of the 1950s through to players who are on the verge of being stars of the coming decades of the 21st century. He makes no claim for genius, though if that appellation were bestowed for hard work and tenacity, he would surely line up alongside the Fischers and Kasparovs... Korchnoi is not quite the same sort player with Black as he is with White. He stresses the he is rather old-fashioned about his black opening strategy, not being a regular exponent of the King's Indian or the Pirc or other 'nihilistic' ways of playing with Black: though there are notable examples of this approach, such as a win against Fischer from Curacao 1962...
Of course it's a superb book. No more need be said in its praise. Just sit back and enjoy Korchnoi's annotation..." | |
