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The hypermodern game of chess / by Savielly Tartakower ; foreword by Hans Ree ; translated from the German by Jared Becker.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Tartakower, Savielly, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Chess.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (749 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Milford, Connecticut : Russell Enterprises, Inc., 2015.
- Summary:
- Tartakower's Legendary Magnum Opus The decade after the First World War was one of exciting change for the royal game. A new wave of dynamic chess was taking shape, led by the young lions Alekhine, Réti, Nimzowitsch, Breyer, Euwe, Tartakower and others. They were successfully asserting their new ideas against the Old Guard. It was in this period that Savielly Tartakower's magnificent work Die Hypermoderne Schachpartie was first released. A massive tome of over 500 densely packed pages, the first edition was published in German in 1924. It was an instant best-seller and a second edition soon followed with corrections and additional material. At first glance, it appears to be an opening manual with incredibly comprehensive notes. But in fact it is much more. There are essays on strategy, tactics, endings, history and other chess-related topics, all presented in Tartakower's wonderful writing style. However, don't be fooled by the witty aphorisms and humor. The scope and depth of Tartakower's annotations would be unmatched until Chess Informant came along in the 1960s. And the rise of the silicon monsters notwithstanding, there is much fertile opening theory to be found and explored. The Hypermodern Game of Chess is the first English-language work of the second edition. Several hundred diagrams have been added and some reformatting of the text has been done to meet the expectations of 21st century readers. In every other respect, it preserves all the comprehensive content. The Hypermodern Game of Chess is now available in English. See why it has inspired generations of chessplayers. And see why Tartakower's magnum opus is, as they say, the stuff of legend...
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed January 12, 2017).
- ISBN:
- 1-941270-31-X
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