New In Chess Yearbook 42 ( Hardbound - Rare )

For sale is New In Chess Yearbook 42 — 1997 — Like New Condition — HardboundThere is something fitting about a volume that pairs the French Steinitz with the Four Knights Glek Variation — one a deeply classical system with roots going back to the 19th century, the other a thoroughly modern idea bearing the name of the grandmaster who championed it. Yearbook 42 opens 1997 with both under the grandmaster microscope.Nogueiras and Sieiro Gonzalez, who have appeared together in earlier volumes of the series and clearly know each other's analytical thinking well, take on the French Steinitz Variation with the specific and critical line 7...cd4 8.Nd4 Qb6 — a position where Black immediately challenges White's center and queenside and the play becomes concrete and demanding in a hurry. The French has always been one of the most theoretically rich defenses in chess and the Steinitz lines were seeing serious practical testing at the top level throughout the 1990s.Then Glek himself writes the survey on his own Four Knights variation with 4.g3 — and there is something special about reading a survey written by the very grandmaster whose name the line carries. Glek knew these positions as well as anyone alive and brought ideas to the survey that you simply would not find anywhere else.Beyond these two featured surveys the volume contains more than 25 additional opening surveys covering the full range of chess theory, with annotated games and specialist commentary throughout, plus the Forum section where the theoretical debates of previous issues continue to evolve.This is the hardbound edition from 1997, now nearly thirty years old and in exceptional condition for its age.Condition: Like New — hardbound, boards clean and firm, pages bright and unmarked, binding solid throughout.

Condition: Like New.

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