Kalendovsky, Matocha: Czech Coal Carlsbad Chess Tournament 2007
A tournament brochure about the strongest attended tournament in the history of the Czech Republic including Czechoslovakia. 17th category Czech Coal Carlsbad Chess Tournament 2007 took place in September 2007 at Karlovy Vary and was attended by Ponomariov, Akopian, Shirov, Movsesian, Navara, Kortchnoi, Timman and Laznicka. Apart from information about the tournament and portraits of the players, it also covers history of chess in spa towns and the first international tournament in Czech lands (Karlovy Vary 1907).
95,- kč
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Shirov: Flames on the Board (II. volume)
A selection of the best games of Latvian-Spanish Grandmaster Alexei Shirov from the last years of his top career, it contains 55 games with his own comments. Shirov is regarded as one of the most original chessplayers and as a successor of the genial master Michail Tal. Czech audience could have seen him several times, including at two festivals organized by Prague Chess Society, where he competed against the Czech number one, David Navara.
Publisher: Prague Chess Society and Cs Sach. Prague 2006
227,- kč
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Gelfand: Ten Extraordinary Games
The book by a Grandmaster Boris Gelfand, Ten extraordinary games, contains a selection of the most interesting games from the up to now career of this player, who belongs to the world’s top first ten. Each game is commented on and explained in details by Boris Gelfand. His opponents were top Grandmasters such as Garry Kasparov, Anatolii Karpov, Veselin Topalov, Alexei Shirov or Peter Leko.
Short opening bibliography of this Byelorussian-Israeli chessplayer was written by Grandmaster Lubomir Kavalek, who fifteen years ago had been preparing Grandmaster Nigel Short for the match with Boris Gelfand.
Publisher: Prague Chess Society and Cs Sach. Prague 2006
148,- kč
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