Timman: Curaçao 1962 - The Battle of Minds that Shook the Chess World Klassiker * Unterrichten

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journalistically pointed style of presentation is no coincidence: the book is based on Harald Keilhack's columns in the Stuttgarter Zeitung

including detailed annotations of both of their pre-1971 games

and not just a collection of freewheeling puzzles

while avoiding loads of opening theory

Timman: Curaçao 1962 - The Battle of Minds that Shook the Chess World Klassiker * UnterrichtenA fresh look at the games of the legendary Candidates Tournament The 1962 Candidates' Tournament in Curaao was one of the fiercest chess battles of all time . At the height of the Cold War, eight players contested for the right to challenge World Champion Mikhail Botvinnik. The format of the tournament was a grueling quadruple round robin. Twenty eight games were to be played on the tropical island, in a contest that lasted two months. The air