Elista Diaries: Karpov-Kamsky, Karpov-Anand, Anand Mexico City 2007 World Chess Championship Matches

by Anatoly Karpov & Ron Henley

Elista Diaries: Karpov-Kamsky, Karpov-Anand,
Anand Mexico City 2007 World Chess Championship Matches

Elista Diaries: Karpov-Kamsky,
Karpov-Anand, Anand Mexico City
2007 World Chess Championship Matches
by Anatoly Karpov and GM Ron Henley

$29.95


Publisher: Ishi Press
ISBN: 0923891978
Product Dimensions: 6 x 9 inches
414 pages


Elista Diaries is the classic first-hand account of one of the most intensely fought World Chess Championship matches seen for decades. The World Champion and his chief trainer deeply annotate all of the games from the 1996 World Championship Match. In the first chapter, the authors pay tribute to all the World Champions (from Morphy to the present day) by analyzing their favorite games played by the great chess artists who have, each in turn, captured the Chess Crown. Karpov includes seven of his own favorite and brilliant games from the period 1992-1996. Subsequent chapters deal with Kamsky's 1993-1995 progress to the finals, previous Karpov-Kamsky encounters (dating from 1991) and the 1995 Karpov-Gelfand Candidates Match. Anatoly Karpov was World Chess Champion from 1975 to 1985, regained the title in 1993 and defended it successfully in 1996 and 1998. He has played more games and more matches for the World Chess Championship than anybody else. He has won 161 grandmaster tournaments, more than anybody else. He has won more games against grandmasters than anybody else. Grandmaster Ron Henley was Karpov's "second" or assistant during some of these matches. Henley kept notes of the analysis in preparing for and playing in these matches and these notes form the basis for much of this book.

Elista Diaries is reviewed by Jeremy Silman on his website:

"This is one of the best three match books I've ever seen (Tal's book on his 1960 match with Botvinnik is the best, Yasser's wonderful account of the Fischer-Spassky rematch has dropped to third behind this Karpov masterpiece); it gives more than full value for those who wish to analyze chess games, and it gives more than full value to those who simply wish to read about chess history (past and present). I loved it and I think that you will too. Give it a try and let me know what you think!"

The book has now been expanded to include analysis of all the games in the Karpov-Anand Match and four of the games that gave Anand the World Chess Championship in Mexico City in 2007.

http://www.jeremysilman.com/book_reviews_js/js_elista_diaries_karpov_k.html

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