New In Chess Yearbook 70 ( Hardbound - Rare )

For sale is New In Chess Yearbook 70 — 2003 — Like New Condition — Hardbound — RareVolume 70 carries a quote from British Chess Magazine right at the top — "There is no better way to keep track of opening fashions" — and by this point in the series that endorsement was well earned. Peter Svidler on the cover with his "alternative to a macho Caro-Kann line" is perfectly in character for one of the most cultured and witty players in the game, someone who always had a slightly sardonic perspective on opening theory and wasn't afraid to find elegant solutions where other players reached for brute force.Shabalov believes the Botvinnik Semi-Slav has risen from its grave — and Alexander Shabalov was not a player who made such claims lightly. The Botvinnik had been declared dead more than once by the engines and kept coming back, and having a fighting grandmaster of Shabalov's caliber argue for its resurrection carries real weight. Kramnik's witchcraft too much for the French Defence — when the world champion brings something new to one of chess's most solid defenses and it qualifies as witchcraft, the French community pays close attention. Can White win at once with 9.f5 in the Pirc? is the kind of direct, practical question that club players and tournament players alike want answered. And Gutman comes to the rescue of the Fajarowicz Gambit — one of the most romantic and underanalyzed gambits in all of chess getting a specialist's defense.Inside the volume 35 surveys cover an exceptionally broad range — three Najdorf variations, the Velimirovic Attack, the Alapin, the Pirc Austrian Attack, the King's Fianchetto, three French lines, the Caro-Kann Advance, the Scandinavian Gubnitsky-Pytel, three Ruy Lopez lines, the Evans Gambit, the Scotch Steinitz, the Two Knights Traxler, the English Defence, the Budapest Fajarowicz, the Queen's Gambit Declined Blackburne, two Slav lines, the Queen's Gambit Accepted Two Knights, the Catalan Open, two Nimzo-Indian lines, the Queen's Indian Nimzowitsch, the King's Indian Fianchetto, the Dutch Leningrad, two English variations, and the Réti White Benoni.Condition: Like New — hardbound, boards clean, pages bright and completely unmarked, binding firm throughout.

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