New In Chess Yearbook 48 ( Hardbound - Rare )

For sale is New In Chess Yearbook 48 — 1998 — Like New Condition — HardboundEvery so often a volume comes along where the cover headlines alone are enough to make a serious chess player stop and take notice. Yearbook 48 is one of those volumes.John van der Wiel asks "Who wins the Nobel Prize?" in his survey of 7...Bd6 in the Petroff — a headline that perfectly captures the kind of wit and personality that the redesigned series brought to its featured surveys. The Petroff had become one of the most debated openings in chess by the late 1990s, with top players arguing endlessly about whether Black's solid but passive setup was genuinely equalizing or subtly inferior. Van der Wiel clearly had something provocative to say about it.Then comes what may be the most dramatic headline in the entire series — "The Gothenburg Bust: Soviet sac 11.Ne6! vindicated after 43 years." This refers to one of the most famous moments in chess history, the 1955 Gothenburg Interzonal where Soviet players unleashed a prepared piece sacrifice against the Sicilian Najdorf simultaneously on three boards — and were repelled. The fact that someone is revisiting this sacrifice 43 years later and arguing it actually works is the kind of theoretical bombshell that had the chess world buzzing.And then there is Sosonko's Corner, a new feature with the intriguing teaser "g2-g4!" — Genna Sosonko was one of the most respected writer-grandmasters of his generation and his contributions always brought something beyond pure analysis.Beyond these headlines the volume delivers more than 25 additional opening surveys plus the Forum section continuing the ongoing theoretical conversations.Condition: Like New — hardbound, boards clean, pages bright and completely unmarked, binding firm throughout.

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