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Magnus Wins With White

In Magnus Wins With White Grandmaster Zenon Franco deeply analyses 32 of Magnus Carlsen’s most instructive games where he wins with the white pieces. This book is written in “move by move” style, a good training tool containing exercises and tests. This format is a great platform for studying chess, improving both skills and knowledge, as the reader is continually challenged to find the best moves and the author provides answers to probing questions throughout.

Magnus Wins With White

Most of the games are taken from Magnus’s recent career, including one from 2020 and eight from 2019. His opponents are nearly all super-grandmasters, and they include former world

champions Viswanathan Anand and Vladimir Kramnik, as well as Wesley So, Maxime Vachier-Lagrave, Alexander Grischuk, Levon Aronian, Boris Gelfand, and, naturally, Anish Giri.

In the majority of these games, Magnus demonstrates his ability to outplay his opponents in the middlegame by simply making stronger moves and applying constant pressure that eventually

forces the opponent to crack and play weaker moves. In some games, however, this takes place in the endgame. A second book, Magnus Wins With Black, is forthcoming.

With a foreword by Magnus Carlsen’s Chief Second and Coach Peter Heine Nielsen.

Zenon Franco

Grandmaster and FIDE Senior Trainer Zenon Franco was born in Asuncion, Paraguay, in 1956.  Zenon is the author of 29 chess books published in six languages and has been a regular chess

columnist of the Paraguayan Hoy and ABC newspapers for the last 17 years.

 

Perhaps, yet by the age of 29 Magnus has created so many interesting games of chess that there is plenty material for not just one book, but two! It does in some way feel early to define

any kind of “status”, as hopefully titles are still to come, brilliances to be won and playing style to evolve. It is very much work in progress, even if “work” feels the wrong way to describe

Magnus’s attitude to chess, which is very much better defined by passion and curiosity. 2019 was the year of AlphaZero, with Magnus playing h4! at any reasonable moment, while 2020,

the year of this book’s publishing, has just included a brilliant win vs. Giri with an early g4!

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