World Champion Chess for Juniors: Learn From the Greatest Players Ever

by Joel Benjamin

Overview

If you want to improve your chess the best place to start is looking how the great champs did it. Grandmaster Joel Benjamin introduces all seventeen World Chess Champions and describes their historical significance He shows what is important about their style of play and what you can learn from them.

Benjamin presents two games by each champion, concentrating on verbal instruction rather than variations. Magic names such as Capablanca, Alekhine, Botvinnik, Tal, Karpov, Kasparov,they're all there, up to current World Champion Magnus Carlsen. How do they open the game? How do they develop their pieces? How do they conduct an attack or defend when necessary? All this is explained in lessons accessible to every post-beginners.

Two Americans are included in this highly instructive manual. Of course the crystal-clear style of Bobby Fischer, the 11th World Chess Champion, guarantees some very memorable lessons. Additionally, Benjamin has also included Paul Morphy. The 19th century master from New Orleans never held and official title, but was clearly the best of the world during his short and dramatic career.

Studying World Champion Chess for Juniors will be an extremely rewarding experience for ambitious youngsters. A lot of trainers and coaches will find it worthwhile to include the book in their curriculum. The author provides many suggestions for further study.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9789056919191
Publisher:	New in Chess
Publication date:	11/15/2020
Pages:	208
Sales rank:	1,128,322
Product dimensions:	6.50(w) x 9.10(h) x 0.80(d)

About the Author

Joel Benjamin won the US Championship three times and has been a trainer for almost three decades. His book Liquidation on the Chess Board won the Best Book Award of the Chess Journalists of America (CJA), and his most recent book Better Thinking, Better Chess is a world-wide bestseller.

Table of Contents

Introduction 7

Acknowledgments 10

Chapter 1 The greatest showman: Paul Morphy 11

Chapter 2 The scientist: Wilhelm Steinitz 21

Chapter 3 The pragmatist: Emanuel Lasker 31

Chapter 4 The endgame authority: José Raul Capablanca 43

Chapter 5 The disciplined attacker: Alexander Alekhine 55

Chapter 6 The professional amateur: Machgielis 'Max' Euwe 68

Chapter 7 The master of training: Mikhail Botvinnik 77

Chapter 8 The endgame artist: Vasily Smyslov 90

Chapter 9 The magician: Mikhail Tal 102

Chapter 10 The master strategist: Tigran Petrosian 116

Chapter 11 The natural: Boris Spassky 126

Chapter 12 The master of clarity: Robert James 'Bobby' Fischer 134

Chapter 13 The master technician: Anatoly Karpov 150

Chapter 14 The master of complications: Garry Kasparov 166

Chapter 15 The strategic tactician: Vladimir Kramnik 181

Chapter 16 The master of the initiative: Veselin Topalov 193

Chapter 17 The lightning attacker: Viswanathan 'Vishy' Anand 203

Chapter 18 The master of everything and nothing: Magnus Carlsen 214

Chapter 19 Who's the best? 227

Chapter 20 Champions checklist 229

Chapter 21 Tactics quiz 231

Chapter 22 Quiz answers 237

Chapter 23 Glossary 247

Explanation of symbols 252

Index of players 253

Index of openings 255

Bibliography 256

Editorial Reviews

"Benjamin's guide to greats of chess is most readable (and) contains a wealth of handy tips."

CHESS Magazine (UK)

"The nice idea of this book is to fill the 'culture gap' that modern young players have about the classics (I was once told of a training session of promising young Western players where the immortal words 'who was Spassky?' were uttered!) through an easy to read overview of the world's greatest players from Morphy to Carlsen. For each player, Benjamin provides an introductory summary of their career, annotates a few games in detail and then provides a small number of unannotated games for further study. I would definitely make sure this book was in the Christmas stocking of any budding young chess player!"

Matthew Sadler