The grandmaster mind
Description:
Product Description
This book investigates how chess-players find good ideas. Amatzia Avni, a psychologist by profession, pursues this goal by interviewing top players and analysts. The discussion focuses on their most interesting and instructive games and compositions.
Avni has been careful to allow his interviewees to convey their own thoughts, rather than direct their answers to comply with any pre-existing theories. We experience the events on the board through the vivid recollections of the player. This gives us a realistic view of each struggle and how the critical decisions were really made.
Avni also presents the players with some unfamiliar positions, and records their reactions upon encountering these new situations. Once we have heard from the grandmasters, Avni discusses the essence of what was said, and provides some insights and recommendations.
The interviewees include famous grandmasters such as Boris Gelfand, Ilia Smirin and Lev Psakhis.
About the Author
Amatzia Avni is an Israeli psychologist. He is a FIDE Master in both game and composition, an international judge of studies, a former editor of the Israeli magazine Schahmat, and a regular contributor to Chess Monthly and Kingpin.
-
International Tournament in Bled
Author:
Kmoch 116.67 $ -
Эндшпиль
Author:
Rabinovich 123.33 $ -
The second international chess tournament Moscow 1935 (there are also rare copies on white paper + 30% to the price)
Author:
Weinstein 166.67 $ - The third international chess tournament (there is also a copy without an introductory article by Krylenko at a price of minus 30%) (art. 7) 200.00 $
-
Sicilian Defense: Attack of Sozin-Fisher
Author:
Mihalchishin 50.00 $ -
Sicilian Defense
Author:
Palacio 25.00 $ -
Author:
Fisher 15.00 $ -
White
Author:
Khalifman 41.67 $ -
White
Author:
Khalifman 60.00 $ -
The debut is white on Kramnik (volume 1b)
Author:
Khalifman 46.67 $