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Chess Results, 1961-1963
A Comprehensive Record with 938 Tournament Crosstables and 108 Match Scores, with Sources by Gino Di Felice
2013
McFarland & Company,Inc.,Publishers Box 611
Jefferson,North Carolina 28640.
http://www.mcfarlandpub.com
438 pages
Price $49.95
ISBN 978-0-7864-7572-8
Chess Results, 1964-1967
A Comprehensive Record with 938 Tournament Crosstables and 108 Match Scores, with Sources by Gino Di Felice
2013
McFarland & Company,Inc.,Publishers Box 611
Jefferson,North Carolina 28640.
http://www.mcfarlandpub.com
549 pages
Price $49.95
ISBN 978-0-7864-7573-5
1964 – 1967 comes with 1204 crosstables and 158 match scores plus the interesting sources and not to forget the useful indexes
of events and index of players.
Here we can follow a talented chess player as Jan Timman who reached in 1964 a fourth place in the Dutch Junior Championship of
1964,that time Kerkhoff,van Baarle and Damen played just a little better.
Leo Kerkhoff was a great talent who died to early in 2007.
1965 was the year for Robert Hartoch who reached a second place in the World Junior Championship of 1965 in Barcelona.
In the Final B group I found the great talent Duncan Suttles where some did believe a new Aaron Nimzowitch was arisen
with his creeping around the edges play.
That time we see in the 14th USSR Junior Championship a great talent named Anatly Karpov.
In the USA Amateur Championship I found a list of 216 entries.
Conclusion: Impressive!
Also available as e book!
Vassily Ivanchuk
100 Selected Games
by Nikolay Kalinichenko
2013
New in Chess
http://www.newinchess.com/
317 pages
Price € 28,95
ISBN: 978-90-569-1427-1
Vasily Ivanchuk born 1969 is from the Ukraine and is one of the most talented player of the last 30 year,his openings knowledge is legendary and his speed is unbelievable.
But he never made it to world number one but this is not a lack of talent,this man is gifted with talent but takes losses sometimes to hard.
So I am very pleased to announce this lovely collection of 100 selected games compiled and analysed by Nikolay Kalinichenko who holds the grandmaster title in correspondence chess.
Nikolay Kalinchenko presents over 100 of Ivanchuk’s best and most instructive games all readable analysed with a lot of instructive text,highly recommended for ambitious upcoming club players.
There is a lot to learn from Ivanchuk a man who did grow up with thegames from Alekhine and Botvinnink,and who was a great fan of the openings books from Paul Keres.
Alexey Suetin who had worked with Ivanchuk at training sessions, emphasised his speed of thought, phenomenal memory and combinational sharpness compared with the young Tal.
From the games in this book I would like to show the reader Ivanchujk his impressive win on Grischuk:
Ivanchuk,Vassily (2748) - Grischuk,Alexander (2756) [B97]
RUS-chT 17th Dagomys (7), 08.04.2010
1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 d6 3.d4 cxd4 4.Nxd4 Nf6 5.Nc3 a6 6.Bg5 e6 7.f4 Qb6 8.Qd2 Qxb2 9.Rb1 Qa3 10.f5 Nc6 11.fxe6 fxe6 12.Nxc6 bxc6 13.Be2 Be7 14.0-0 0-0 15.Rb3 Qc5+ 16.Kh1 d5 17.e5 Nd7 18.Rxf8+ Kxf8 19.Be3 Qa5 20.Bg4 Ke8 21.Bxe6 Nc5 22.Bxc5 Qxc5 23.Bxc8 Rxc8 24.Qd3 Qc4 25.Qf3 Kd8 26.Qf7 Qh4 27.Rb1 Qh6 28.Nxd5 cxd5 29.Qxd5+ Ke8 30.Rd1 Rc7 31.Qa8+ Kf7 32.Rf1+ Ke6 33.Qxa6+ Kd7 34.Rd1+ Ke8 35.e6 Bd8 36.Qb5+ Ke7 37.Qb4+ 1-0,the blow with 30.Rd1 is impressive.
Conclusion: This is a fascinating chess book!
The Grand Prix Attack
Fighting the Sicilian with an early f4
by Evgeny Sveshnikov
2013
New in Chess
http://www.newinchess.com/
251 pages
Price € 24,95
ISBN: 978-90-569-1417-2
The Grand Prix Attack was popularised during the 1980s on the British chess scene and that time the white players went for direct kingside attack, but as we can learn from the 2.f4 expert Grandmaster Evgeny Sveshnikov there is also a positional treatment of this line.
The move 2.f4 was played successfully a number of times by Alexander McDonnell,England’s strongest player in the first third of the 19th century,in his first match game against the great French player,Louis-Charles Mahe de la Bourdonnais London 1834.
Many prefer to handle the Grand Prix with the central blow with 1.e4 c5 2.f4 d5 3.exd5 Qxd5? But Sveshnikov suggests for black the more reliable 3…Nf6! As we can see in the game Sveshnikov against Loek van Wely,Moscow 2003: 1.e4 c5 2.f4 d5 3.exd5 Nf6 4.Bb5+ Nbd7 5.c4 a6 6.Ba4 b5 7.cxb5 Nxd5 8.Nc3 N7b6 9.Nf3 Nxc3 10.dxc3 Qxd1+ 11.Bxd1 axb5
And Sveshnikov writes:The sharp complications have ended very quickly,and already after 11 moves,we have a quiet endgame on th eboard.White’s chances should be somewhat better:he has three pawns against two on the queenside and the black pawns on this part of the board are also somewhat vulnerable.
A new idea from Sveshnikov is 8.Ne2!? which he tried not so long ago against his son in a tournament game.
Pleasant to mention in this book are the large amount of new ideas as for example: 1.e4 c5 2.Nc3 d6 3.f4 g6 4.Nf3 Bg7 5.Bc4 Nc6 6.d3 Nf6 7.0-0 0-0 8.f5 gxf5 9.Qe1 Nb4!? 10.Qg3 Kh8 11.Rb1 Nxc2 12.Qh4 Be6 13.Ng5 with a unclear position.
Conclusion: This is a super openings book!
Chess Books
Chess Results, 1961-1963
A Comprehensive Record with 938 Tournament Crosstables and 108 Match Scores, with Sources by Gino Di Felice
2013
McFarland & Company,Inc.,Publishers Box 611
Jefferson,North Carolina 28640.
http://www.mcfarlandpub.com
438 pages
Price $49.95
ISBN 978-0-7864-7572-8
The chess researcher
Gino Di Felice comes in this book with a impressive record of 938
Tournament Crosstables and 108 Match Scores all with sources and
eventual sponsors.
This all makes it a very important reference work of men’s chess
competitions, strange enough there are no references to woman chess
tournaments but maybe Gino Di Felice is working on a special “Nachtrag”
as the famous Bilguer once did?
The work in the book is unbelievable for example the New York
{USA},VII-XI 1961-“Bruno Forsberg Memorial’ Tournament is covered with
141 entries, source is Chess Life 1961 page 233.
Between the lines I found forgotten chess player as the chess amateur
GH Kets from Doetinchem Gelderland,who even made chess theory with the
line 1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 a6 3.c4 Nc6 4.d4 cxd4 5.Nxd4 Nf6 6.Nc3 e5 7.Nf5 d5
8.cxd5 Bxf5 9.exf5 Nd4 10.Bd3 Nxd5 11.0-0 Bb4 12.Be4 Nxc3 13.bxc3 Bxc3
14.Rb1 0-0 15.Qg4 Qd6 16.Rd1 Rac8 17.h4 and Rg3,please see Theorie der
Schaakopeningen and ECO B first edition from Beograd.
Many of these chess lovers come back to life in this book and that
makes it all a superb read!
Chess Results, 1964-1967
A Comprehensive Record with 938 Tournament Crosstables and 108 Match Scores, with Sources by Gino Di Felice
2013
McFarland & Company,Inc.,Publishers Box 611
Jefferson,North Carolina 28640.
http://www.mcfarlandpub.com
549 pages
Price $49.95
ISBN 978-0-7864-7573-5
1964 – 1967 comes with 1204 crosstables and 158 match scores plus the interesting sources and not to forget the useful indexes
of events and index of players.
Here we can follow a talented chess player as Jan Timman who reached in 1964 a fourth place in the Dutch Junior Championship of
1964,that time Kerkhoff,van Baarle and Damen played just a little better.
Leo Kerkhoff was a great talent who died to early in 2007.
1965 was the year for Robert Hartoch who reached a second place in the World Junior Championship of 1965 in Barcelona.
In the Final B group I found the great talent Duncan Suttles where some did believe a new Aaron Nimzowitch was arisen
with his creeping around the edges play.
That time we see in the 14th USSR Junior Championship a great talent named Anatly Karpov.
In the USA Amateur Championship I found a list of 216 entries.
Conclusion: Impressive!
Also available as e book!
Vassily Ivanchuk
100 Selected Games
by Nikolay Kalinichenko
2013
New in Chess
http://www.newinchess.com/
317 pages
Price € 28,95
ISBN: 978-90-569-1427-1
Vasily Ivanchuk born 1969 is from the Ukraine and is one of the most talented player of the last 30 year,his openings knowledge is legendary and his speed is unbelievable.
But he never made it to world number one but this is not a lack of talent,this man is gifted with talent but takes losses sometimes to hard.
So I am very pleased to announce this lovely collection of 100 selected games compiled and analysed by Nikolay Kalinichenko who holds the grandmaster title in correspondence chess.
Nikolay Kalinchenko presents over 100 of Ivanchuk’s best and most instructive games all readable analysed with a lot of instructive text,highly recommended for ambitious upcoming club players.
There is a lot to learn from Ivanchuk a man who did grow up with thegames from Alekhine and Botvinnink,and who was a great fan of the openings books from Paul Keres.
Alexey Suetin who had worked with Ivanchuk at training sessions, emphasised his speed of thought, phenomenal memory and combinational sharpness compared with the young Tal.
From the games in this book I would like to show the reader Ivanchujk his impressive win on Grischuk:
Ivanchuk,Vassily (2748) - Grischuk,Alexander (2756) [B97]
RUS-chT 17th Dagomys (7), 08.04.2010
1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 d6 3.d4 cxd4 4.Nxd4 Nf6 5.Nc3 a6 6.Bg5 e6 7.f4 Qb6 8.Qd2 Qxb2 9.Rb1 Qa3 10.f5 Nc6 11.fxe6 fxe6 12.Nxc6 bxc6 13.Be2 Be7 14.0-0 0-0 15.Rb3 Qc5+ 16.Kh1 d5 17.e5 Nd7 18.Rxf8+ Kxf8 19.Be3 Qa5 20.Bg4 Ke8 21.Bxe6 Nc5 22.Bxc5 Qxc5 23.Bxc8 Rxc8 24.Qd3 Qc4 25.Qf3 Kd8 26.Qf7 Qh4 27.Rb1 Qh6 28.Nxd5 cxd5 29.Qxd5+ Ke8 30.Rd1 Rc7 31.Qa8+ Kf7 32.Rf1+ Ke6 33.Qxa6+ Kd7 34.Rd1+ Ke8 35.e6 Bd8 36.Qb5+ Ke7 37.Qb4+ 1-0,the blow with 30.Rd1 is impressive.
Conclusion: This is a fascinating chess book!
The Grand Prix Attack
Fighting the Sicilian with an early f4
by Evgeny Sveshnikov
2013
New in Chess
http://www.newinchess.com/
251 pages
Price € 24,95
ISBN: 978-90-569-1417-2
The Grand Prix Attack was popularised during the 1980s on the British chess scene and that time the white players went for direct kingside attack, but as we can learn from the 2.f4 expert Grandmaster Evgeny Sveshnikov there is also a positional treatment of this line.
The move 2.f4 was played successfully a number of times by Alexander McDonnell,England’s strongest player in the first third of the 19th century,in his first match game against the great French player,Louis-Charles Mahe de la Bourdonnais London 1834.
Many prefer to handle the Grand Prix with the central blow with 1.e4 c5 2.f4 d5 3.exd5 Qxd5? But Sveshnikov suggests for black the more reliable 3…Nf6! As we can see in the game Sveshnikov against Loek van Wely,Moscow 2003: 1.e4 c5 2.f4 d5 3.exd5 Nf6 4.Bb5+ Nbd7 5.c4 a6 6.Ba4 b5 7.cxb5 Nxd5 8.Nc3 N7b6 9.Nf3 Nxc3 10.dxc3 Qxd1+ 11.Bxd1 axb5
And Sveshnikov writes:The sharp complications have ended very quickly,and already after 11 moves,we have a quiet endgame on th eboard.White’s chances should be somewhat better:he has three pawns against two on the queenside and the black pawns on this part of the board are also somewhat vulnerable.
A new idea from Sveshnikov is 8.Ne2!? which he tried not so long ago against his son in a tournament game.
Pleasant to mention in this book are the large amount of new ideas as for example: 1.e4 c5 2.Nc3 d6 3.f4 g6 4.Nf3 Bg7 5.Bc4 Nc6 6.d3 Nf6 7.0-0 0-0 8.f5 gxf5 9.Qe1 Nb4!? 10.Qg3 Kh8 11.Rb1 Nxc2 12.Qh4 Be6 13.Ng5 with a unclear position.
Conclusion: This is a super openings book!
