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http://search.barnesandnoble.com/Mammoth-Book-of-the-Worlds-Greatest-Chess-Games/Graham-Burgess/e/9780786705870/?itm=27&USRI=chess+games

I was looking at the review for this book, and I noticed something interesting.  Apparently, it annotates not only the famous Kasparov v Topalov game from 1999, but also Kasparov v Wijk aan Zee.  I didn't know that Kasparov had also played against the entire town of Wijk aan Zee.  Wink

trysts

I used to have that book! It's got Polgar against Shirov in a superb game!Smile

gorgeous_vulture
golden122306 wrote:

http://search.barnesandnoble.com/Mammoth-Book-of-the-Worlds-Greatest-Chess-Games/Graham-Burgess/e/9780786705870/?itm=27&USRI=chess+games

I was looking at the review for this book, and I noticed something interesting.  Apparently, it annotates not only the famous Kasparov v Topalov game from 1999, but also Kasparov v Wijk aan Zee.  I didn't know that Kasparov had also played against the entire town of Wijk aan Zee.  


 One suspects that in a simul he might well have beaten them all!

golden122306
trysts wrote:

I used to have that book! It's got Polgar against Shirov in a superb game!


I agree, probably my favorite of the games that I've gone over from the book.

golden122306
Fezzik wrote:

Btw, the typo is Barnes and Nobles' mistake, not Burgess'.


I figured, someone who is not familiar with chess mistaking Wijk aan Zee for a player.  I'd never heard of the town before I started studying chess.

Rishi9

This book is now available in kindle for $ 5.60

Recommended for beginners and reasonably priced.

http://www.amazon.com/Mammoth-Worlds-Greatest-Chess-Games-ebook/dp/B00IZGIJ2C/ref=wl_it_dp_o_pC_nS_nC?ie=UTF8&colid=EJTMBPBALNI9&coliid=I3LGQJV36NMFGQ

Talfan1

its a cracking book filled with clear easy to understand additions by the authors the polgar game was wicked i found the correspondence one Estrin v Berliner totally crazy tho my fave was gelfland anand linares 93

Rishi9

I asked for a refund for this book.

There is a list of 125 games in the table of contents but the games themselves are not hyperlinked, you have to wade through the ebook to get to the game you want to play out.

Formatting is poor. Nowhere near the quality one gets from Gambit Publications (I know this is  not an Gambit book.)

Talfan1

my version is paperback really easy to find a particular game authors indexing very concise done by players and also variations