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Chess Metamorphosis Nikita Vitiugov Grandmaster Nikita Vitiugov narrates his journey through chess and life, with special focus on the 2020-2024 period,

when he seconded his long-time friend Ian Nepomniachtchi. ‘Team Nepo’ dominated the 2020/21 and 2022 Candidates Tournaments, qualifying for the

World Championship matches of 2021 and 2023, and finished second in the 2024 Candidates Tournament.

Chess Metamorphosis Nikita Vitiugov

With memoirs of chess training camps, preparation, Candidates Tournaments and World Championship matches, punctuated by 58 annotated games spanning the 2001-2024 period,

Chess Metamorphosis offers a unique backstage pass to chess at the highest level. Most importantly, the author shares his perspective of the raw human interactions,

emotional highs and lows, and subsequent reflections after these tension-filled events.

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The manuscript of this book reached me at an inconvenient time, and for a long while I couldn’t get myself into the right frame of mind to read it.

But when I finally pulled myself together and opened the text file, I couldn’t tear myself away. It was not only exciting to relive numerous thrilling moments from my chess career,

but also incredibly interesting to look at them – and at myself – from the outside. What matters most to me is that the narrator is not some random chess columnist or commentator,

of whom there is no shortage these days, but rather my friend, one of the strongest chess players in the world in recent years, whose chess path first crossed mine back in the

winter/spring of 2001 in Smolensk.

Chess Metamorphosis Nikita Vitiugov

Nikita Vitiugov is a world-class grandmaster with a peak rating of 2751. He won the 2021 Russian Championship, 2019 Prague Chess Festival Masters, 2017 Grenke Open and 2013

Gibraltar Masters. His performances for the Russian national team have yielded multiple team and individual medals, including team gold medals at the World Team Championship

(2010 and 2013) and European Team Championship (2019). He now lives in London and has represented England since 2023.

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