New In Chess Yearbook 45

For sale is New In Chess Yearbook 45 — 1997 — Like New Condition — HardboundSomething changed with Yearbook 45 and the cover tells you immediately. Starting with this volume the series rebranded itself as The Grandmaster Guide to Chess Openings — a title that perfectly captured what serious players already knew this series was. It also signals a slight shift in how the content was presented, with the featured surveys now given more prominent billing and descriptive headlines rather than just variation codes.And what headlines they are. Nadanian drops what the cover itself calls "A revolution in the Grünfeld" with the remarkable 5.Na4 — a move that looks almost comical at first glance, sending the knight to the rim in the opening, but which apparently carries enough poison to qualify as genuinely revolutionary. The kind of provocative novelty that has chess players arguing in tournament halls and correspondence forums for months afterward. Tiviakov then asks one of the great rhetorical questions in chess — "Why castle in the Dragon?" — and presumably answers it with his survey of SI 17.2, exploring ideas where Black keeps the king in the center or delays castling in one of the sharpest openings on the board. Tiviakov was one of the most creative and well-prepared players of his generation and his theoretical work always repaid close attention.Beyond these two headline surveys the volume delivers the full complement of more than 25 additional opening surveys across all systems, plus the Forum section continuing the theoretical debates from previous issues.This is the final Yearbook of 1997 and the first of the redesigned series — making it a natural landmark volume for collectors building a complete run.Condition: Like New — hardbound, boards clean, pages bright and completely unmarked, binding firm throughout.

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