Endgame Virtuoso Anatoly Karpov

The Exceptional Endgame Skills of the 12th World Champion

Anatoly Karpov’s legendary endgame technique has always been something of an enigma. Karpov became World Champion in 1975, as the successor of Bobby Fischer. With his fine endgame technique Karpov managed to win positions which nearly everybody else assessed as a draw.

This book takes, for the first time, a close look at his endgame technique, explaining the finer points better than Karpov himself has ever cared to do. All existing analysis has been reworked and many spectacular findings have been added. Endgame Virtuoso Anatoly Karpov provides valuable insight into the qualities that made Karpov such a great endgame player, maybe the greatest of all time. A highly instructive and entertaining book.

Tibor Karolyi is an International Master and a former Hungarian Champion. He is an experienced chess coach (Judit Polgar and Peter Leko were among his pupils), who regularly contributes to various major chess magazines. He has written books about Garry Kasparov and Judit Polgar.

Nick Aplin is an Associate Professor of Sport Studies at the National Institute of Education, Nanyang Technological University in Singapore.

The 105 best endgames of Karpov’s career explained for amateurs.

Praise for Tibor Karolyi:

“An excellent job. Keeps the reader fully entertained.”
Richard Palliser in Chess Magazine on Judit Polgar, The Princess of Chess

“An outstanding achievement, a real teaching book.”
Jon Ostriker at ChessCafe on Kasparov’s Fighting Chess

“By far the best work on Karpov’s chess to date.”
ChessToday

“A most enjoyable and instructive work, with an index of endgame themes which allows the student to concentrate on Karpov’s abilities in specific types of endgame.”
John Saunders, British Chess Magazine

“Excellent with respect to technique, which all of us could use.”
Bob Long, Chessco

“Endgame examples on the absolute world top level, and analysed on a very high level, too. Very nicely edited.”
Peter Doggers at ChessVibes.com

“Karolyi is an experienced chess trainer and in his deep analyses you will find his original view on the game of chess.”
IM Herman Grooten, Eindhovens Dagblad

“A delight for lovers of the endgame.”
B.H.Wilders, Nederlands Dagblad

“It is a book on practice. No rules, no laws, the author shows how Karpov managed to do it. And that’s important, for every trainer will agree: one learns the most from the games of the greatest players.”
Johan Hut, Schakers.Info.

• Casa editrice New in Chess
• Code 5670
• Anno 2007
• Pagine p. 358
• Isbn 9789056912024