My Great Predecessors 2 Euwe, Botvinnik, Smyslov & Tal

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My Great Predecessors 2 Euwe, Botvinnik, Smyslov & Tal is rereleased in paperback and hardcover, enhanced in every way, with high-quality print, modern fonts and an upgraded visual style.

Part II covers the post age of the return matches and the 5th through 8hth World Champions: Max Euwe (1935–1937), Mikhail Botvinnik (1948–1957, 1958–1960, 1961–1963), Vasily Smyslov (1957–1958) and Mikhail Tal (1960–1961).

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My Great Predecessors 2

Garry Kasparov, the 13th World Chess Champion (1985–2000) “is the greatest player who’s ever lived” – Magnus Carlsen a new game began!

Alekhine was the catalyst of this process (40 years later Fischer was a similar catalyst). The great Russian master, after absorbing and enriching the ideas of

hypermodernism, played a different, more complicated form of chess and accomplished an unparalleled feat by succeeding, after all the adversity that had befallen him,

in reaching the top.

Alas, Capablanca was unable to regain his former halo of invincibility: after his defeat at the hands of Alekhine the deference for the ‘chess machine’ disappeared,

and even grandmasters who had been defeated many times by the Cuban began playing much more confidently against him. And as for the young players led by

Botvinnik and Keres, he altogether could not keep pace with them. In short, in the new form of the game Capa was somewhat lost…

Garry Kasparov

But what about Alekhine? After crushing Bogoljubow in the 1929 match and scoring brilliant victories in San Remo 1930 and Bled 1931, he too little by little began to ‘calcify’!

All the summits had been conquered and he had apparently lost his sense of purpose. He also won London and Bern 1932 ‘on autopilot’ and then set off on an endless round-the

-world trip with simultaneous displays: USA, Mexico, Cuba, Hawaii, Japan, Shanghai, Hong Kong, the Philippines and so on. Meanwhile,

life was not standing still and a new era was beginning in chess.

The 1934 match with Bogoljubow already showed the onset of a crisis in Alekhine’s play.

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