Edited by Ken Neat. With a preface by Vladimir Kramnik and an introduction by Dirk Poldauf. 2005.

For more than ten years Boris Gelfand has been one of the world's top-ranking players. Born in Minsk, the capital of Belarus, he has been living for several years now in Rishon-Le-Zion, Israel.

This is the first collection of his best games, which the 35-year-old grandmaster has annotated in great detail, and on a level that is suitable for every club player. The book gives an insight into the thoughts of a professional player, who has been a candidate for the world championship and who is well known as a very effective adviser of many other top players. There is a special chapter on the 8 Îb1 variation in the Grünfeld Defence, on which, like the Sicilian Najdorf, Boris Gelfand is one of the world's leading experts.

List of Content

006 Conventional Signs

007 Preface

008 Introduction

009 The making of a classical grandmaster

010 The boy from Minsk

012 His rise to world-class status

013 Successful years

017 My Favourite Variation

017 Game 1: Gelfand-Dorfman

021 Game 2: Gelfand-Ftacnik

026 Game 3: Gelfand-lvanchuk

030 Game 4: Gelfand-lvanchuk

034 Game 5: Gelfand-Kamsky

038 Game 6: Gelfand-Leko

041 Game 7: Gelfand-Shirov

047 My Most Memorable Games

047 Game 8: Loginov-Gelfand

050 Game 9: Lev-Gelfand

055 Game 10: Gelfand-Lobron

059 Game 11: Gelfand-Adams

062 Game 12: Gelfand-Malisauskas

067 Game 13: Gelfand-lvanchuk

070 Game 14: Gheorghiu-Gelfand

073 Game 15: Gelfand-Kasparov

080 Game 16: Gelfand-Chandler

083 Game 17: Short- Gelfand

086 Game 18: Gelfand-Georgiev

094 Game 19: Short-Gelfand

098 Game 20: Damljanovic-Gelfand

101 Game 21: Polugayevsky-Gelfand

103 Game 22: Gelfand-Yusupov

105 Game 23: Gelfand-Shirov

110 Game 24: Gelfand-Anand

113 Game 25: Gelfand-Shirov

117 Game 26: Shirov-Gelfand

121 Game 27: Gelfand-Adams

125 Game 28: Gelfand-Adams

129 Game 29: Gelfand-Topalov

133 Game 30: Gelfand-Kramnik

139 Game 31: Shirov-Gelfand

145 Game 32: Gelfand-Piket

148 Game 33: Gelfand-Salov

151 Game 34: Gelfand-Karpov

154 Game 35: Gelfand-Korchnoi

159 Game 36: Gelfand-Sutovsky

163 Game 37: Rublevsky-Gelfand

169 Game 38: Gelfand - Markowski

172 Game 39: Gelfand - Lautier

176 Game 40: Gelfand - Georgiev

180 Game 41: Gelfand-Ye Jiangchuan

185 Game 42: Gelfand-Anand

192 Game 43: Gelfand-Piket

195 Game 44: Gelfand-Van Wely

197 Game 45: Gelfand-Delchev

200 Game 46: Gurevich-Gelfand

203 Game 47: Grischuk-Gelfand

208 Game 48: Gelfand-Bruzon

210 Game 49: Gelfand-Acs

213 Game 50: Shabalov-Gelfand

218 Game 51: Gelfand-Grischuk

222 Combinations

236 Endings

252 Appendix

252 Index of Players

255 Index of Games

260 Index of Opponents

261 Index of Openings