- Paperback: 272 pages
- Publisher: Microsoft Press,U.S. (1 Dec 1998)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0735606064
- ISBN-13: 978-0735606067
- Product Dimensions: 22.9 x 18.8 x 2.3 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 5,576,102 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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We've updated the cover of "Winning Chess Brilliancies" so that the Microsoft Press "RM" Winning Chess series has a more cohesive and dynamic look. This book by International Grand Master Yasser Seirawan provides a move-by-move account of the best chess games of the last 25 years by the world's most formidable chess players. Seirawan serves as host on a fascinating excursion through these historical chess games, providing insights into and explanations of the significant moves, or "brilliancies" as the chess-literate say. Readers will get a taste of the most dazzling chess combinations, devious strategies, and downright cruel blows as world champions throw caution to the wind and risk it all! Readers will delight as the author takes these awe-inspiring and controversial games and makes them enjoyable and easy to understand.
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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
I have not had the fortune of reading the other four books in Seirawan's series, but this book makes me want to try and get a hold of them.
Seirawan covers twelve modern grandmaster games in move by move explanations. There are not enough chess books on the market that do this, I feel that this sort of book acts like a bridge for the intermediate player to walk over into the advanced realm. Even beginners (with a basic positional and tactical understanding) will learn and enjoy the games that Seirawan has annotated.
Seirawan writes with originality, and provokes the reader to think for himself as he reproduces annotations by other world class grandmasters and then argues with them. This is something not seen in enough books of chess.
I am not giving this book five stars for one reason. Microsoft Press decided that they would publish this book as an incomplete version, they left out six games (the original would have eighteen, the one published only has twelve).
For players who want similar move-by-move accounts of chess games, take a look at 'Kasparov vs. Deep Blue: The historic match between man and maching' by Bruce Pandolfini, and 'Logical Chess: Move by Move' by Irving Chernev.
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
All 5 books in the series are extremely good. This book is more of learning from recorded games rather than a strict tutorial, but a great 5th book follow up. Every beginning chess player should read these book before all others: Playing Winning Chess, Winning Chess Openings, Winning Chess Tactics, and Winning Chess Strategies.
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this is the last book from the winning chess series and it is very good yesser seirawan makes the book very entertaining he tells you about the players the chess world and every move in great detail this is a great book for chess lovers the only thing theres only twelve games and the book ends. but its a book that can be read many times
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