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Fischer vs Karpov: The 1975 World Chess Championship
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Tolia Karpov’s way to top was rather hard. Watched that drama “Champion of the World” (2021 movie). It seems a huge drama of Korchnoi as actor Habensky played his one of the best role in actor works. Hmm, Fisher? Bobby looked as a very mystic person.
TRAvghan escribió:
Sounds interesting! Anyone got a feedback on this?
Hello, TRAvghan.
Thank you for your interest in my book. In the video comments, you’ll find all the Amazon links. By clicking the "Read sample" button there, you can preview approximately the first 20 pages of the book, including the full table of contents.
The first part of the book analyzes the rise of both players to the top, the meetings between Fischer and Karpov in their attempts to reach an agreement to hold the match -even after 1975-, their level of play at that time, and the opinions of chess masters on the possible outcome.
The second part consists of 24 hypothetical games, incorporating hundreds of real games in which Fischer and Karpov played their favorite openings. The opening phase is analyzed in detail, and some games are presented in full, making this section particularly useful for those who study these openings. All games are carefully analyzed move by move. I’ve included two images showing the first four pages of the first game to give you an idea of the depth of the analysis.
Preview of the first pages of the first game:
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TRAvghan escribió:
Sounds interesting! Anyone got a feedback on this?
Hello, TRAvghan.
Thank you for your interest in my book. In the video comments, you’ll find all the Amazon links. By clicking the "Read sample" button there, you can preview approximately the first 20 pages of the book, including the full table of contents.
The first part of the book analyzes the rise of both players to the top, the meetings between Fischer and Karpov in their attempts to reach an agreement to hold the match -even after 1975-, their level of play at that time, and the opinions of chess masters on the possible outcome.
The second part consists of 24 hypothetical games, incorporating hundreds of real games in which Fischer and Karpov played their favorite openings. The opening phase is analyzed in detail, and some games are presented in full, making this section particularly useful for those who study these openings. All games are carefully analyzed move by move. I’ve included two images showing the first four pages of the first game to give you an idea of the depth of the analysis.
Preview of the first pages of the first game:
https://imgur.com/qOTxNHb
https://imgur.com/TBNyTH9
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The American Bobby Fischer won the World Chess Championship at the age of 29 by defeating the Soviet Boris Spássky in the legendary 1972 match held in Reykjavík (with a score of +7=11-3), thus ending the Soviet hegemony that had prevailed since Botvínnik succeeded the late Alekhine in 1948. Fischer’s road to the top was an extraordinary demonstration of superiority, beginning with his commanding victory in the strong 1970 Palma de Mallorca Interzonal, 3.5 points ahead of Larsen, Géller and Hübner. His 6-0 victories over Taimánov and Larsen in the 1971 Candidates matches is a one of a kind event, not unlike his final victory over Petrosián (+5=3-1).
Soon thereafter, Soviet Anatóly Kárpov won the Candidates cycle brilliantly, starting with his shared victory at the 1973 Leningrad Interzonal (tied with Korchnói), and then in 1974 winning the matches against Polugaévsky (+3=5-0), Spássky (+4=6-1) and Korchnói (+3=19-2). At just 23, Kárpov was crowned the official world title challenger.
The championship match was to take place the following year, in 1975. But when all the chess enthusiasts were eager to watch a new confrontation between the two best players of the moment, and just as captured in the opening lines of the great 1993 movie “Searching for Bobby Fischer” (“Innocent Moves” in the United Kingdom), “Then Bobby Fischer made the most original and unexpected move of all: he disappeared...”.
This book is precisely about what could have happened but never did, it looks back at the lives of these two chess geniuses, and includes an imaginary match between the two of them consisting of 24 games based on their opening repertoire up to 1975, also taking into account the possible novelties discovered in later years. Who will end up winning…?
Paperback on Amazon.com (check the video comments on YouTube for additional Amazon links)