Chess Parallels

En lærerik, variert og underholdende bok av og med den fremragende jugoslaviske stormesteren Borislav (Bora) Ivkov som døde tidligere i år (2022). Komplette partier, strategiske og taktiske stillinger, sluttspillstuder osv.

Ivkov var den første juniorverdensmesteren i 1951. Han vant mange turneringer og fine partier og var på sitt beste en VM-kandidat, men var kanskje litt for makelig anlagt til å ta de siste stegene. I boka lærer han bort mye instruktiv sjakk og tegner og forteller om store sjakkprofiler og begivenheter gjennom over 60 år. Eksemplene er i stor grad fra egne, men også andres partier, og sluttspillstudier.

Også enda en fin innbundet bok fra Informator-forlaget.

Se ellers innholdsfortegnelsen for å få et inntrykk av denne spennende boka som vil gi glede og utbytte til alle spillenivåer.

Forlagets omtale:

Learn from the legacy of one of the most talented players to ever grace the chess world.

All elements of the game explained in an easy-to-digest and highly entertaining fashion.

Dear readers, it is both our solemn duty and exceptional honour to present you a collection of Ivkov’s instructive explorations on various chess themes. In this book you will find a great number of intriguing anecdotes casting a new light on some of the greatest chess players of all time, and some lesser known heroes of our bellowed game.

Also, this book can serve you as an inspiration to investigate a bit deeper in the areas of strategy, planning and tactics learning chess in the “good, old way” unpolluted by the excessive engine usage. Finally, you can simply browse through the material and enjoy solving numerous riddles, studies and puzzles, picking up bits of chess wisdom along the way.

We hope that you will find as much enjoyment reading this book as we experienced ourselves editing it for your pleasure.

Innholdsfortegnelsen:

005 Remembering Borislav Bora Ivkov

007 My Mentor and Friend - Bora Ivkov

009 Part 1 - Tactics

013 Unusual positions

023 The exibition of checkmates

045 The symphony of mistakes

069 Combinations

085 Part II - Strategy

087 The Razor's Edge

090 Preparations

096 Centralisation of Pieces

100 Squares and Points

106 Chess Principles

109 Part III - Parallels

111 The Pin

118 Discovered attack

125 A stroke of inspiration

128 Castling

131 Prokes

133 The Muse bishop

137 The Sobolevsky theme

140 The Geller motif

144 The checkmate picture from Bled

149 Zugzwang

155 The geometric motif

173 Striking similarity

179 Cosma's rook

182 Timman's pawns

185 The Reti manoeuvre

192 The almighty knight

197 The powerless knight

200 Cozio

202 Grigoriev

204 Queen sacrifice

206 Twin games

211 Perpetual check

214 Positive and negative chess photography

216 Twin mistakes

219 Reaching the goal