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Garry Kasparov on Garry Kasparov, part 1 is the first book in a major new three-volume series. This series will be unique by the fact that it will record the greatest chess battles played by the greatest chessplayer of all-time. The series in itself is a continuation of Kasparov's mammoth history of chess, comprising My Great Predecessors and Modern Chess.
Kasparov's historical volumes have received great critical and public acclaim for their rigorous analysis and comprehensive detail regarding the developments in chess that occurred behind the scenes. This new volume and series continues in this vein with Kasparov scrutinising his most fascinating encounters from the period 1973-1985 whilst also charting his development away from the board.
This period opens with the emergence of a major new chess star from Baku and ends when Kasparov finally clinches the world crown - becoming, at 22, the youngest player ever to do so. It had been known in Russia for some time that Kasparov had an extraordinary talent but the first time that this talent was unleashed on the western world was in 1979. The Russian Chess Federation had received an invitation for a player to participate in a tournament at Banja Luka and, under the impression that this was a junior event, sent along the fifteen year old Kasparov (as yet without even an international rating!). Far from being a junior tournament, Banja Luka was actually a major international event featuring numerous world class grandmasters. Undeterred Kasparov stormed to first place, scoring 11.5/15 and finishing two points clear of the field. Over the next decade this 'broad daylight' between Kasparov and the rest of the field was to become a familiar sight in the world's leading tournaments.
Kasparov's historical volumes have received great critical and public acclaim for their rigorous analysis and comprehensive detail regarding the developments in chess that occurred behind the scenes. This new volume and series continues in this vein with Kasparov scrutinising his most fascinating encounters from the period 1973-1985 whilst also charting his development away from the board.
This period opens with the emergence of a major new chess star from Baku and ends when Kasparov finally clinches the world crown - becoming, at 22, the youngest player ever to do so. It had been known in Russia for some time that Kasparov had an extraordinary talent but the first time that this talent was unleashed on the western world was in 1979. The Russian Chess Federation had received an invitation for a player to participate in a tournament at Banja Luka and, under the impression that this was a junior event, sent along the fifteen year old Kasparov (as yet without even an international rating!). Far from being a junior tournament, Banja Luka was actually a major international event featuring numerous world class grandmasters. Undeterred Kasparov stormed to first place, scoring 11.5/15 and finishing two points clear of the field. Over the next decade this 'broad daylight' between Kasparov and the rest of the field was to become a familiar sight in the world's leading tournaments.
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Garry Kasparov is generally regarded as the greatest chess player ever. He was the thirteenth World Champion, holding the title between 1985 and 2000. His tournament record is second to none, featuring numerous wins in the world's major events, often by substantial margins. As well as his outstanding successes, Kasparov has constantly promoted the game; he has done more than anyone to popularise chess in modern times.
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21 of 22 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
Following his five volumes on past world chess champions and his four books on "Modern Chess" (of which three were devoted to his five matches against Anatoly Karpov), this is the first of three autobiographical volumes on Kasparov's career, concluding at age 21 with the abrupt end in February 1985 of his first world championship match against Karpov, following his crushing victories in the Interzonal tournament in 1982 and in Candidates' matches against Beliavsky, Korchnoi and Smyslov in 1983 and 1984.
There are 100 games, of which the first ten Kasparov played under his birth name of Garik Weinstein. Most are complete games, but a few are endgames. There is very detailed analysis aided by the judgements of many analysts over time plus computer analysis alongside Kasparov's reasons for the moves he made and his judgements about them with hindsight. The quality of most of the games and all the analysis is as formidable as one would expect from the man who was perhaps the greatest ever player - an opinion shared by many of today's grandmasters, ranging from Britain's Nigel Short to current world champion Anand. Of course, others will advance the claims of Lasker, Capablanca, Alekhine, Fischer, and perhaps Botvinnik and Tal. Given that some of these never played each other, and that no two ever played each other when both were at their prime, then it must ultimately be a matter of opinion.
Alongside the games there is a full and frank account by Kasparov of his childhood and later teenage years. On the quality of his chess as a junior Kasparov often resorts to quotes from others. Many of these are inevitably very favourable; for example, the prediction in The Guardian by Leonard Barden in February 1975 (when Fischer was still world champion) that Karpov would be the next champion, and that the 11-year old Garik Weinstein was clear favourite to be the champion after Karpov. Barden predicted this would happen in 1990. In fact it happened in 1985. That the young boy's great talent was fully recognised by others is shown by the fact that at the age of twelve his trainer, after a year of pleading, persuaded his family to change his name from Weinstein to his mother's name of Kasparov. The reason advanced was that nobody with such an obviously Jewish name as Weinstein would be allowed to become a challenger for the world championship given the anti-Semitism at the time in the Soviet Union and the emigration of thousands of Jews.
However, the book is not a triumphalist collection of quotes and games. Kasparov gives many critical observations by others about faults in his play, particularly impulsiveness. He even quotes his trainer describing how the young Kasparov ran sobbing to the arms of his mother after performing disappointingly in a tournament. Among the 100 games there are several losses by Kasparov and a number of draws, and throughout the book Kasparov is his own severest critic when he played a bad move or missed the best continuation.
This book is a fascinating read and a valuable insight into the personal and chess development of an immensely talented child who became the youngest ever world champion aged 22. I look forward to parts 2 and 3, covering the period of Kasparov's peak and his domination of tournament chess over a twenty year period.
There are 100 games, of which the first ten Kasparov played under his birth name of Garik Weinstein. Most are complete games, but a few are endgames. There is very detailed analysis aided by the judgements of many analysts over time plus computer analysis alongside Kasparov's reasons for the moves he made and his judgements about them with hindsight. The quality of most of the games and all the analysis is as formidable as one would expect from the man who was perhaps the greatest ever player - an opinion shared by many of today's grandmasters, ranging from Britain's Nigel Short to current world champion Anand. Of course, others will advance the claims of Lasker, Capablanca, Alekhine, Fischer, and perhaps Botvinnik and Tal. Given that some of these never played each other, and that no two ever played each other when both were at their prime, then it must ultimately be a matter of opinion.
Alongside the games there is a full and frank account by Kasparov of his childhood and later teenage years. On the quality of his chess as a junior Kasparov often resorts to quotes from others. Many of these are inevitably very favourable; for example, the prediction in The Guardian by Leonard Barden in February 1975 (when Fischer was still world champion) that Karpov would be the next champion, and that the 11-year old Garik Weinstein was clear favourite to be the champion after Karpov. Barden predicted this would happen in 1990. In fact it happened in 1985. That the young boy's great talent was fully recognised by others is shown by the fact that at the age of twelve his trainer, after a year of pleading, persuaded his family to change his name from Weinstein to his mother's name of Kasparov. The reason advanced was that nobody with such an obviously Jewish name as Weinstein would be allowed to become a challenger for the world championship given the anti-Semitism at the time in the Soviet Union and the emigration of thousands of Jews.
However, the book is not a triumphalist collection of quotes and games. Kasparov gives many critical observations by others about faults in his play, particularly impulsiveness. He even quotes his trainer describing how the young Kasparov ran sobbing to the arms of his mother after performing disappointingly in a tournament. Among the 100 games there are several losses by Kasparov and a number of draws, and throughout the book Kasparov is his own severest critic when he played a bad move or missed the best continuation.
This book is a fascinating read and a valuable insight into the personal and chess development of an immensely talented child who became the youngest ever world champion aged 22. I look forward to parts 2 and 3, covering the period of Kasparov's peak and his domination of tournament chess over a twenty year period.
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
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Garry Kasparov on Garry Kasparov - Part 1: 1973-1985. By Garry Kasparov ... unsurprisingly. (Everyman Chess 2012). 100 games, hardback, 520 pages.
Kasparov can write. I didn't expect that; most chess-players are fully literate but not interesting writers. I don't feel it's ghosted, either - it has just that slight arrogance that gives it genuine authorship.
The 100 games start from age 10 and end with the last game (the 48th!) of the first Karpov-Kasparov match. They're not solely his wins, unlike some player's collections, and his win percentage has always been so high that the defeats he gives have to be few. The analysis is as perceptive and as objective as I fully expected and it sensibly avoids the excessive detail that many GMs love to print; Kasparov has considered what the reader wants.
It's an autobiographical game collection. The games are interspersed with short accounts of what was going on in the political machinations of the Soviet chess era and again Kasparov has got it right - he's realised what the reader will already know and added unexpected, and in many cases fascinating, information. We learn that Azerbaijani Communist Party leader Aliev got a place in the Politburo at the end of 1982 and as a result was able to get Kasparov favoured. If Aliev had got in any later, Kasparov wouldn't have got through the Candidates matches and so wouldn't have played that 1984/5 match with Karpov.
The £30 cover price may be off-putting, but as an investment in improving your game it will give you a much better return than openings books. In any case, it's already below £18 on Amazon and so too is the Kindle version. I don't Kindle many books, but this one would be worth considering because of its weight - at 520 pages hardback, 10" x 7", it's travel-unfriendly.
The title's a mouthful, but it will become known as `Kasparov on Kasparov'. It was wise of his family to give him his mother's name - Weinstein, apart from the difficulties it would have given him by advertising his Jewish origin to the Soviet authorities, just isn't memorable enough. If he does ever stand for Russian President, the posters will just say `Kasparov'.
Kasparov won't succeed in usurping Putin - happily, because that means he'll continue to play some chess and to write fine books like this one. Editor, please put me down for review copies of Parts 2 and 3!
Ian Watson
Kasparov can write. I didn't expect that; most chess-players are fully literate but not interesting writers. I don't feel it's ghosted, either - it has just that slight arrogance that gives it genuine authorship.
The 100 games start from age 10 and end with the last game (the 48th!) of the first Karpov-Kasparov match. They're not solely his wins, unlike some player's collections, and his win percentage has always been so high that the defeats he gives have to be few. The analysis is as perceptive and as objective as I fully expected and it sensibly avoids the excessive detail that many GMs love to print; Kasparov has considered what the reader wants.
It's an autobiographical game collection. The games are interspersed with short accounts of what was going on in the political machinations of the Soviet chess era and again Kasparov has got it right - he's realised what the reader will already know and added unexpected, and in many cases fascinating, information. We learn that Azerbaijani Communist Party leader Aliev got a place in the Politburo at the end of 1982 and as a result was able to get Kasparov favoured. If Aliev had got in any later, Kasparov wouldn't have got through the Candidates matches and so wouldn't have played that 1984/5 match with Karpov.
The £30 cover price may be off-putting, but as an investment in improving your game it will give you a much better return than openings books. In any case, it's already below £18 on Amazon and so too is the Kindle version. I don't Kindle many books, but this one would be worth considering because of its weight - at 520 pages hardback, 10" x 7", it's travel-unfriendly.
The title's a mouthful, but it will become known as `Kasparov on Kasparov'. It was wise of his family to give him his mother's name - Weinstein, apart from the difficulties it would have given him by advertising his Jewish origin to the Soviet authorities, just isn't memorable enough. If he does ever stand for Russian President, the posters will just say `Kasparov'.
Kasparov won't succeed in usurping Putin - happily, because that means he'll continue to play some chess and to write fine books like this one. Editor, please put me down for review copies of Parts 2 and 3!
Ian Watson
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22 of 23 people found the following review helpful
A valuable insight into the personal and chess development of a great player
25 Oct 2011
Format:Hardcover
Following his five volumes on past world chess champions and his four books on "Modern Chess" (of which three were devoted to his five matches against Anatoly Karpov), this is the first of three autobiographical volumes on Kasparov's career, concluding at age 21 with the abrupt end in February 1985 of the first Karpov-Kasparov world championship match, following his crushing victories in the Interzonal tournament in 1982 and in Candidates' matches against Beliavsky, Korchnoi and Smyslov in 1983-84.
There are 100 games, of which the first ten Kasparov played under his birth name of Garik Weinstein. Most are complete games, but a few are endgames. There is very detailed analysis aided by the judgments of many analysts over time plus computer analysis alongside Kasparov's reasons for the moves he made and his judgments about them with hindsight. The quality of most of the games and all the analysis is as formidable as one would expect from the man who was perhaps the greatest ever player - an opinion shared by many of today's grandmasters, including current world champion Anand. Of course, others will advance the claims of Lasker, Capablanca, Alekhine, Fischer, and perhaps Botvinnik and Tal. Given that some of these never played each other, and that no two ever played each other when both were at their prime, then it must ultimately be a matter of opinion.
Alongside the games there is a full and frank account by Kasparov of his childhood and later teenage years. On the quality of his chess as a junior Kasparov often resorts to quotes from others. Many of these are inevitably very favourable; for example, the prediction in the British newspaper The Guardian by Leonard Barden in February 1975 (when Fischer was still world champion) that Karpov would be the next champion, and that the 11-year old Garik Weinstein was clear favourite to be the champion after Karpov. Barden predicted this would happen in 1990. In fact it happened in 1985. That the young boy's great talent was fully recognized by others is shown by the fact that at the age of twelve his trainer, after a year of pleading, persuaded his family to change his name from Weinstein to his mother's name of Kasparov. The reason advanced was that nobody with such an obviously Jewish name as Weinstein would be allowed to become a challenger for the world championship given the anti-Semitism at the time in the Soviet Union and the emigration of thousands of Jews.
However, the book is not a triumphalist collection of quotes and games. Kasparov gives many critical observations by others about faults in his play, particularly impulsiveness. He even quotes his trainer describing how the young Kasparov ran sobbing to the arms of his mother after performing disappointingly in a tournament. Among the 100 games there are several losses by Kasparov and a number of draws, and throughout the book Kasparov is his own severest critic when he played a bad move or missed the best continuation.
This book is a fascinating read and a valuable insight into the personal and chess development of an immensely talented child who became the youngest ever world champion aged 22. I look forward to parts 2 and 3, covering the period of Kasparov's peak and his domination of tournament chess over a twenty year period.
There are 100 games, of which the first ten Kasparov played under his birth name of Garik Weinstein. Most are complete games, but a few are endgames. There is very detailed analysis aided by the judgments of many analysts over time plus computer analysis alongside Kasparov's reasons for the moves he made and his judgments about them with hindsight. The quality of most of the games and all the analysis is as formidable as one would expect from the man who was perhaps the greatest ever player - an opinion shared by many of today's grandmasters, including current world champion Anand. Of course, others will advance the claims of Lasker, Capablanca, Alekhine, Fischer, and perhaps Botvinnik and Tal. Given that some of these never played each other, and that no two ever played each other when both were at their prime, then it must ultimately be a matter of opinion.
Alongside the games there is a full and frank account by Kasparov of his childhood and later teenage years. On the quality of his chess as a junior Kasparov often resorts to quotes from others. Many of these are inevitably very favourable; for example, the prediction in the British newspaper The Guardian by Leonard Barden in February 1975 (when Fischer was still world champion) that Karpov would be the next champion, and that the 11-year old Garik Weinstein was clear favourite to be the champion after Karpov. Barden predicted this would happen in 1990. In fact it happened in 1985. That the young boy's great talent was fully recognized by others is shown by the fact that at the age of twelve his trainer, after a year of pleading, persuaded his family to change his name from Weinstein to his mother's name of Kasparov. The reason advanced was that nobody with such an obviously Jewish name as Weinstein would be allowed to become a challenger for the world championship given the anti-Semitism at the time in the Soviet Union and the emigration of thousands of Jews.
However, the book is not a triumphalist collection of quotes and games. Kasparov gives many critical observations by others about faults in his play, particularly impulsiveness. He even quotes his trainer describing how the young Kasparov ran sobbing to the arms of his mother after performing disappointingly in a tournament. Among the 100 games there are several losses by Kasparov and a number of draws, and throughout the book Kasparov is his own severest critic when he played a bad move or missed the best continuation.
This book is a fascinating read and a valuable insight into the personal and chess development of an immensely talented child who became the youngest ever world champion aged 22. I look forward to parts 2 and 3, covering the period of Kasparov's peak and his domination of tournament chess over a twenty year period.
16 of 17 people found the following review helpful
Best games book since Bobby Fischer's 60 memorable games
19 Oct 2011
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This is an absolutely outstanding book. I will leave expert judgment on the analysis to FM's and GM's but I can say as a chess read this is engrossing, exhilarating, and said otherwise pure pleasure. It's a page turner. You can't put it down. The chess is from another world. Bobby Jones said of Jack Nicklaus -- he plays a game with which I'm not familiar. When you see these games again they won't feel familiar, you'll be stunned at what you've been missing. Stohl's terrific effort is wonderful and I remain grateful for his pain staking work but in terms of excitement and narrative it pales in comparison. This is not only a phenomenal chess book, it's a great read! Kasparov talks about his opponents, the tournaments, his progress, his own life demons including the difficulty of being the only man in his household after his grandfather died. This is Kasparov at his best. His life has been a gift to chess, but this book goes a step further. He could have put his name on anything and it would have sold. This is something more. You can't buy what is given here because it's the kind of thing that can't be sold. It's love. Love of chess -- the game, the people, the history, and a glimpse into some possible futures.
If I could only have one chess book with me on a dessert Island -- like Gilligan's -- I'd take Bobby's 60 and this latest by Kasparov, stitch them together, and call it one book.
If I could only have one chess book with me on a dessert Island -- like Gilligan's -- I'd take Bobby's 60 and this latest by Kasparov, stitch them together, and call it one book.
10 of 11 people found the following review helpful
Best Game Collection by Greatest Player Kasparov
15 Oct 2011
Format:Hardcover
This is one of the best game collections ever written by one of the greatest chess player ever! It doesn't get better than this, Kasparov deeply analyzed his games from promising young player to World Champion! There is an immense chess knowledge in these pages and a lot to be learned by playing over these games with Kasparov explaining his moves and thoughts during game. Of course he utilized computers to double check and shed new light on these games. This should be in every serious chess players library.
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