Exploring the Most Difficult Challenge
304 Seiten, kartoniert, New in Chess, 1. Auflage 2020

Magnus Carlsen is arguably the strongest player of all time. His dominance is such that every loss comes as a shock. They remind us that even he has his weak moments. In fact, identifying the root causes of his losses holds valuable lessons for all players.
Cyrus Lakdawala’s search starts with a series of Magnus wins and draws to give the reader a feel for how incredibly difficult it is to beat him. The World Champion’s arsenal is awesome: a superlative ability to calculate, near-perfect intuition, probably the best endgame technique ever, a wide and creative opening repertoire, a willingness to unbalance the position almost anytime, and last but not least: his unparalleled will to win.
How to Beat Magnus Carlsen has a thematic structure, which, together with Lakdawala’s uniquely accessible style, makes its lessons easy to digest. Sometimes even Magnus gets outplayed, sometimes he over-presses and goes over the cliff’s edge, and sometimes he fails to find the correct plan. And yes, even Magnus Carlsen commits straightforward blunders. Lakdawala explains the how and the why.
It’s wonderful to have a World Champion who is not just incredibly strong, but who is also happy to experiment and take risks. That’s what makes Magnus Carlsen such a fascinating chess player. And that’s why he is the hero of this book. There is no doubt that Carlsen has examined all his losses under a microscope. If he benefits from this process, then so will we.
Cyrus Lakdawala is an International Master who lives in San Diego, CA. He has been teaching chess for four decades and is a prolific and widely read author. Much acclaimed books of his are How Ulf Beats Black, Clinch It! and Winning Ugly in Chess. He twice won the Best Instructional Book Award of the Chess Journalists of America (CJA), in 2017 for Chess for Hawks and in 2020 for In the Zone: The Greatest Winning Streaks in Chess History.
 
EAN   9789056919153
Gewicht:570 g
Hersteller:New in Chess
Breite 17 cm
Höhe  23,5 cm
Erscheinungsjahr    2020
Autor: Cyrus Lakdawala
Sprache: Englisch
Auflage-: 1
ISBN-13 -9789056919153
Seiten 304
Einband:kartoniert
 
006 Explanation of symbols
007 Introduction
015 Chapter 1 Witchcraft
042 Chapter 2 Quicksand
128 Chapter 3 Planning your own funeral
207 Chapter 4 Tales of the Lost Tribe
245 Chapter 5 Outbooked
277 Chapter 6 Data overload
289 Chapter 7 What time is it?
299 Chapter 8 Magnus’ toughest opponents
301 Index of openings
302 Index of players
304 Bibliography