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Marvelous Modern Miniatures – 2020 Games in 20 Moves or Less enter the world of chess miniatures where games are decided in 20 moves or less! Marvelous Modern Miniatures

features the largest collection of miniatures chess games played in the last half-century. Over 500 pages of cut and thrust!

Carsten Hansen

Although every player is rated at least 2100, the overwhelming majority are strong masters or grandmasters. You will follow them as they do battle with tactical fireworks raging around them.

Marvelous Modern Miniatures – 2020 Games in 20 Moves or Less

The surprising depth of the annotations (each one of the 2,020 games has meaningful comments) turns this book into a virtual course on tactics. Looking for traps and pitfalls

in your favorite openings? You will probably find them here. Marvelous Modern Miniatures will improve your tactical skills and alertness and sharpen your opening play.

As a bonus, the entire collection is immensely enjoyable!

Marvelous Modern Miniatures – 2020

Carsten Hansen, a Danish FIDE Master at Chess, was born in 1971, a year where the winter came very early and heavy to the region of Denmark where his parents had settled. After his father had shoveled snow for five hours he realized that not even the main roads were being cleared anymore. The national guard came to pick up his pregnant wife and eight hours later Carsten was brought into the world.

At age 14, Carsten became the youngest master player at chess in Denmark at the time. He was, however, soon surpassed by a player that came to play an important role in his writing career several years later, Peter Heine Nielsen.

Games in 20 Moves or Less

After a trip to the Soviet Union/Russia (the switch happened during the visit) at the end of 1991, Carsten put his full-time chess-playing days behind him to pursue a career in the shipping industry (where he is still employed).

In late 1995, Carsten was contacted by Peter Heine Nielsen to co-author a chess book on the «Sicilian Accelerated Dragon». Peter had been offered a contract but felt that he wouldn’t be able to write the book on his own and since Carsten had played the opening his entire life, it was a natural fit. The book was released in 1998 to high acclaim and near universal positive reviews.

Carsten being eager to write more, contacted another publisher, the recently started Gambit Publications, to write more chess books, whereas Peter pursued his own chess career, reaching a rating peak of above 2700 (the highest for a Danish player) and later became the coach for World Champion Anand from India and is currently coaching the reigning World Champion, Magnus Carlsen.

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