Overview
It's major news when a legendary player reveals his opening secrets. And when he has rarely written about his games or preparation methods, and was famous for meticulous, ahead-of-his-time opening analysis, it makes it a true publishing event. Yet that is what eight-time world championship candidate Lajos Portisch has done. In this book, he opens his extensive opening files and presents the most important games and unused novelties in the Ruy Lopez (or Spanish Game). He also explains the strategies and ideas behind these lines, and places the key games in their historical settings. Anecdotes abound, as do reflections on his key rivals, including Fischer, Karpov, Tal, Larsen, Spassky and Timman. This is also a thoroughly modern work. As well as drawing upon games from his own long career, Portisch includes important Ruy Lopez games by modern champions, including Anand and Carlsen, describing them from his own unique perspective. All analysis has been computer-verified, with Portisch's hand-made variations standing up to scrutiny in most cases, but with the computer adding new and surprising twists. Thus we see how human creativity can remain a vital component in modern preparation.
Full Product Details
Author: Lajos Portisch
Publisher: Gambit Publications Ltd
Imprint: Gambit Publications Ltd
ISBN: 9781911465119
ISBN 10: 1911465112
Pages: 160
Publication Date: 15 July 2017
Audience:
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Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: In Print
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Reviews
This book is particularly suitable for players who already have some knowledge of the Spanish Game, and want to deepen this further. Through the combination of analysis and experience, the reader gets the best of both worlds: namely the accuracy and sharpness of the machine and the intuitive, formable insight of the human being. All in all, a neat book - Zyon Kollen, schaaksite.nl Short-listed for the English Chess Federation Book of the Year Award Portisch's notes are absolutely delightful, combining personal reflections on his contemporaries with excellent analysis. Summing up, this is a fabulous book - fully accessible to club players and with sufficient depth to entice strong tournament players to enter its entertaining and instructive pages - Sean Marsh, Chess Magazine
This book is particularly suitable for players who already have some knowledge of the Spanish Game, and want to deepen this further. Through the combination of analysis and experience, the reader gets the best of both worlds: namely the accuracy and sharpness of the machine and the intuitive, formable insight of the human being. All in all, a neat book - Zyon Kollen, schaaksite.nl Portisch's notes are absolutely delightful, combining personal reflections on his contemporaries with excellent analysis. Summing up, this is a fabulous book - fully accessible to club players and with sufficient depth to entice strong tournament players to enter its entertaining and instructive pages - Sean Marsh, Chess Magazine Short-listed for the English Chess Federation Book of the Year Award
Author Information
Lajos Portisch is one of the greatest players of the modern era. An elite player from the 1960s to the 1990s, he qualified for the candidates eight times and was board 1 for the Hungary team that won olympic gold in 1978, ahead of the USSR. He is one of the 12 Hungarian 'Sportsmen of the Nation' - the country's highest sporting honour.
