Table of Contents
Preface - From the compiler 7
Foreword - Memories of a chess academic 9
'Memories' authors in alphabetical order 16
Chapter 1 Memories of Razuvaev's contemporaries - I 17
Garry Kasparov 17
Anatoly Karpov 19
Boris Spassky 20
Veselin Topalov 22
Viswanathan Anand 23
Magnus Carlsen 23
Boris Postovsky 23
Chapter 2 Selected games 43
1962-1973 - the early years 43
1975-1978 - grandmaster 73
1979-1982 - international successes 102
1983-1986 - expert in many areas 138
1987-1995 - always easy and clean 168
Chapter 3 Memories of Razuvaev's contemporaries - II 191
Evgeny Tomashevsky 191
Boris Gulko 199
Boris Gelfand 201
Lyudmila Belavenets 202
Vladimir Tukmakov 202
Irina Levitina 204
Grigory Kaidanov 206
Michal Krasenkow 207
Evgeny Bareev 208
Joel Lautier 209
Michele Godena 213
Alexandra Kosteniuk 215
Chapter 4 Articles and interviews (by and with Yuri Razuvaev) 217
Confessions of a grandmaster 217
My Gambit 218
The Four Knights Opening 234
The gambit syndrome 252
A game of ghosts 258
You are right, Monsieur De la Bourdonnais!! 267
In the best traditions of the Soviet school of chess 276
A lesson with Yuri Razuvaev 283
A sharp turn 293
Extreme 299
The Botvinnik System 311
'How to develop your intellect' 315
'I am with Tal, we all developed from Botvinnik' 325
Chapter 5 Memories of Razuvaev's contemporaries - III 331
Igor Zaitsev 331
Alexander Nikitin 332
Albert Kapengut 332
Alexander Shashin 335
Boris Zlotnik 337
Lev Khariton 337
Sergey Yanovsky 339
Ilya Odessky 340
Sergey Shipov 350
Adrian Mikhalchishin 350
Index of openings 355
Index of names 356
Index of annotators to games 362
Bibliography 363
Acknowledgments 365