New In Chess Yearbook 57 ( Hardbound - Rare )

For sale is New In Chess Yearbook 57 — 2000 — Like New Condition — Hardbound"Stunning Sacrifices" — two words that every attacking player wants to see on the cover of an opening reference, and Yearbook 57 delivers on the promise with three stories that read more like chess drama than dry theory.Gallagher didn't hesitate to unleash Christiansen's stunning sacrifice 8.Qg4!? in the Paulsen Sicilian against Milov — and then, as if that weren't enough, follows it up with another sacrifice after 8...d4, namely 9.e5. The cover asks who will claim the Novelty of the Year Prize, which tells you the chess world was paying close attention to what was happening in these games.Then there is the wonderfully stubborn Van Wely, who lost three times in a row to Shirov in the Perenyi Gambit and apparently was considering trying it a fourth time. Their most recent encounter produced 17...Rg8!!, after which Black seems equal at least — the kind of resilience and determination in the face of repeated setbacks that makes chess stories genuinely compelling. The Perenyi Gambit was one of the sharpest and most dangerous weapons against the Sicilian Scheveningen and this survey captures it right in the heat of battle.And John van der Wiel reports on Ponomariov's brave attempt to rehabilitate the Queen's Gambit Accepted 3.e4 c5 line — a variation that Khalifman's 11.Qg4 had seemingly refuted, until Black found the stunning 11...Qd5. The ongoing back-and-forth between refutation and rehabilitation is what keeps opening theory alive.Beyond these three featured surveys the volume delivers more than 25 additional opening surveys across all systems, with the Forum and Sosonko's Corner alongside.Condition: Like New — hardbound, boards clean, pages bright and completely unmarked, binding firm throughout.

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