Karolyi/Aplin: Genius in the Background Holz wie in vielen anderen Sportarten

wie in vielen anderen Sportarten auch

but also contains games from the practice of today's top players such as Garry Kasparov

Wilhelm Steinitz – Curt von Bardeleben

Bf4 against King’s Indian Defence)

The Nimzo-Indian is Black's most reliable response to 1

Karolyi/Aplin: Genius in the Background Holz wie in vielen anderen SportartenGenius in the Background introduces brilliant chess that will be unfamiliar to even well read chess players. 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