Müller/Stolze: Magic like chess world champion Mikhail Tal

Autor: Müller, Karsten; Stolze, Raymund
Verlag: Olms
Erscheinungsjahr: 2010
Sprache: German
Buchumschlag: book
Seiten: 308

Tactics guide with 100 victim combinations

• Crowning your own game with a spectacular sacrificial combination - what amateur wouldn't want to be able to do magic?! Anyone who gets tactical advice from the eighth world champion Mikhail Tal and puts it into practice at the chessboard is guaranteed to experience this feeling of happiness. The Latvian magician only held the chess crown for a year, but he will forever remain one of the brightest stars in chess history.

• The Hamburg grandmaster Karsten Müller and the Berlin chess journalist Raymund Stolze have looked through more than 2600 games that Tal played and have selected the 100 combinations of the chess wizard from Riga that are intended to help the reader to sacrifice correctly. In four main chapters, easy warm-up exercises, correct and speculative ones as well as sacrifices à la Tal in defense are presented.

• We hope, of course, that after reading this, you will be highly motivated to dare more in your own games, and that you will consciously try to swim against the current. The fact is: your opponent can only capture one of your hanging pieces in each move, as Mikhail Tal once so aptly put it.

• Of particular interest are contributions from prominent chess greats, including Artur Yusupov, former world champion Boris Spassky, Wolfgang Uhlmann and Robert Hübner, who personally bring to light the unique magic of a true chess genius.

“Magic like Mikhail Tal gets my highest ratings. If you love Tal, you will love this book. If you love solving problems, you will love this book. If you love chess history, you will love this book. If you love complete games with chess problems and thorough commentary, you will love this book. If you love interesting texts by Tal, Botvinnik, Spassky and many others, you will love this book. In my opinion, Magic like Mikhail Tal already an absolute classic, suitable for players of all levels.”

– JEREMY SILMAN

308 pages, 1st edition 2010, paperback