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Tibor Károlyi & Nick Aplin: Genius in the background.
In English. Algebraic Figurine notation. 

Genius in the background: 1) Topalov's Junior Trainer; 2) Yochanan Afek; 3) Gerardo Barbero; 4) Kasparov's Junior Trainer; 5) Karolyi Honfi; 6) Ashot Nadanian; 7) Karsten Müller; 8) László Lindner; 9) Elmar Magerramov; 10) Tan Ann Lian; 11) Ignatius Leong; 12) Oleg Pervakov.

Genius in the Background introduces brilliant chess that will be unfamiliar to even well-read chessplayers. Twelve chess stars are profiled with examples of their greatest achievements, but these stars are not famous – they are geniuses who stay in the background. For example, Pervakov and Afek are not household names but they compose chess studies and puzzles of such elegance and cleverness that they deserve to be famous.

Top players such as Garry Kasparov and Veselin Topalov may be famous names to chess fans, but they did not become World Champions without great help – two of their coaches are profiled in this book and provide insights into the education of a chess champion. A broad range of chess is covered by the twelve profiles – from openings to endgames, puzzles to training. The common thread is beauty and brilliance that deserves to be better known.

Tibor Károlyi is an International Master of chess from Budapest, who was Hungarian Chess Champion in 1984. His previous book with Nick Aplin, Enggame Virtuoso Anatoly Karpov, won the Guardian’s chess Book of the Year prize in 2007. Karolyi coached Peter Leko when in the space of four years Leko improved from promising junior to grandmaster. 

Quality Chess, Glasgow 2009.
382 pages. 17 x 24 cm paperback. Condition as new. Weight 690 g.

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