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# Garry Kasparov on My Great Predecessors, Part 1 Kindle Edition

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- **What is this?** Garry Kasparov on My Great Predecessors, Part 1 Kindle Edition by garry kasparov
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## Customer Reviews

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 







  
  
    A magnificent book not to be missed.
  

*by B***U on Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on August 8, 2003*

I'm not usually given to writing rave reviews, and of course this book has its "errors and omissions," but what great book or piece of artwork does not?I have had this book for about a week now and find it very hard to put down. The story is gripping and the game annotations are brilliantly insightful.  If you ever wonder why you waste so much time on chess when you are never going to be a professional, read this book. It is a timeless work of art.  The time you have spent developing your ability to understand and appreciate both the artistry and sporting element of chess is rewarded with a book like this.  It is also a far better book for "club players" than yet another "author's best games" collection full of complex modern games that most of us can't hope to really comprehend and get much out of.  Though if Kasparov annotates his games in the future volumes in the same manner as the game annotations in this volume, we will be in for something very special.I have also read some of the nit-picking criticisms (including those of Kingston and Winter) posted on the web and, in my opinion, they completely miss the forest for the trees.  Who really cares whether Capa's wife was actually at his bedside or outside the hospital when he died (other than his wife of course!)? It certainly wouldn't change the main thread of the story one iota.  Nothing I saw in their criticisms would have made much if any difference to the book.  They treat the book as an academic history, but it is not.  It is a book for chess players and chess fans, not academics, and on that front it succeeds brilliantly.  A little poetic license seems justified in making a story about chess players playing chess so gripping!The same can be said of the criticisms of the annotations.  The witty, opinionated, personal insights of Kasparov are, in my mind, of far more value than anything anyone else can come up with, even if they run Fritz until doomsday.The only problems I have with the book are: 1) I don't have GK's personal signature on my copy (!), and 2) I can't wait to get my paws on parts 2, 3 ...Compare this book with Euwe's book on The Development of Chess Style and you will understand what a great book this is.  If I were stranded on a desert island, Kasparov's book is the one I would want with me.

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    Very good! I play through the original moves...
  

*by S***E on Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on August 5, 2022*

Very good! I play through the original moves (in bold print), then I play through the alternative moves,and take notes. Sometimes I play out the first 5-10 moves or, cover the rest up with a card and try to guess the next moves. Your games will improve dramatically when you study the Grandmaster games this way!

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 







  
  
    Unbelievable piece of chess history!
  

*by K***V on Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on March 12, 2021*

This book covers the first 4 official chess world champions Steinitz, Lasker, Capablanca and Alekhine.However, it does not start just there. The earlier masters like La Bourdonnais and Staunton (briefly), Anderssen and Morphy (in detail) are also covered.As usual in the series some key competitors and/or significant players of the respective period are also discussed. Some of them in great length. Segments on: Chigorin, Pillsbury, Marshall, Tarrasch, Schlechter, Rubinstein, Nimzowitsch, Bogoljubow.Most of the famous games between those protagonists are discussed. Just to give some perspective – from the first 27 games in the book “The world’s greatest chess games” (Burgess, Nunn, Emms) that actually cover this time frame – 24 are featured in this book. On some of them Kasparov puts quite a different spin in his commentary. So this is basically the history of the pre WWII chess era.If you love chess – get it!

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