2007-07-16 The Fathers of Chess

Get a flavour for the different styles not only of the 4 world champions (Steinitz, Lasker, Capablanca & Alekhine) but also of other great players like Morphy, Chigorin, Rubinstein and Tarrasch. The games are placed in an interesting historical, political and cultural biography of each player.

The game analysis is at the highest level, and you need a board (or even better a chess program like Fritz, which has most of the games on its database) to follow them in detail. Nevertheless, there is the odd 'oops, missed something' in the analysis. Indeed I believe the majority of the game analysis has been written by Dmitry Plisetsky and edited by Kasaparov.

N.B. This book is only of value to the serious student of chess, viz. a player who is or seeks to achieve an elo of 2000+.