Learning Chess with Vladimir Simagin

Stormester Mihail Marin serverer en behagelig og lærerik bok med utvalgte partier av Vladimir Simagin, delvis bygget på Simagins egen russiske partisamling fra 1963.

Forlagets egen omtale:

Vladimir Pavlovich Simagin (1919-1968) was a little-known chess player. He was noted not so much for his sporting results — three times Moscow Champion and once Soviet Correspondence Champion— as a theoretician and trainer — he was second to Smyslov when he won the World Chess Championship in 1957.

However, his contribution to chess, often underestimated, should be considered significant. In almost every middlegame manual there are games by Simagin. His games have a singular beauty and elegance.

The book contains a collection of his best games, selected and annotated in fine detail by Grandmaster Mihail Marin, in his usual lively and didactic style.

Innhold:

From “Best games” by Vladimir Simagin

x Foreword

xii From the author

001 Chapter 1. Simagin's Attacking Philosophy

024 Chapter 2. Heading for a Favourable Endgame

051 Chapter 3. Defeating the Giants

071 Chapter 4. My Sicilian Castle for a Knight

088 Chapter 5. “Oh Prince, Sacrifice your Rooks and not your”...Bishop!

114 Chapter 6. The Simagin Sicilian - the Bind Maróczy Never Used

163 Chapter 7. The Closed, but not Boring, Sicilian

194 Chapter 8. Grünfeld, the Simagin Way

246 Chapter 9. The Hesitant Trajectory of Nimzovitsch's Bishop

255 Chapter 10. The Simagin Ensemble 1...d6 Followed by ...Bg4

266 Chapter 11. The Refutation of a System

278 Chapter 12. The Swan Song

296 Chapter 13. Think and Play Like Simagin!

308 Tests

318 Solutions