Great Chess Upsets
by Samuel Reshevsky /
2012 / English / PDF
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This is a collection of 69 annotated games played by 17 of the
greatest chess players in history. The games are nicely laid out in
descriptive notation. Included with each of the games is a
biography of the players. This book is a good read. Even without
playing over the games, readers will find it enjoyable. Although
the games are labeled “upsets”, not all are considered upsets in
the prospective of history. For example, Morphy's defeat of
Anderssen in 1858 might have been considered an upset at the time
it was played when Morphy had just arrived in Europe, but we now
recognize that Morphy was a stronger player than Anderssen. This
collection includes four games lost by Bobby Fischer at near his
peak plus games lost by each of the World Champions from Steinitz,
Lasker, Capablanca and Alekhine to Botvinnik, Tal, Petrosian and
Spassky. Samuel Reshevsky is the ideal person to write this book
because he played all of them except for Steinitz.
This is a collection of 69 annotated games played by 17 of the
greatest chess players in history. The games are nicely laid out in
descriptive notation. Included with each of the games is a
biography of the players. This book is a good read. Even without
playing over the games, readers will find it enjoyable. Although
the games are labeled “upsets”, not all are considered upsets in
the prospective of history. For example, Morphy's defeat of
Anderssen in 1858 might have been considered an upset at the time
it was played when Morphy had just arrived in Europe, but we now
recognize that Morphy was a stronger player than Anderssen. This
collection includes four games lost by Bobby Fischer at near his
peak plus games lost by each of the World Champions from Steinitz,
Lasker, Capablanca and Alekhine to Botvinnik, Tal, Petrosian and
Spassky. Samuel Reshevsky is the ideal person to write this book
because he played all of them except for Steinitz.