March 16, 2009

QOTD:

“ It is always a treat to read a book by Colin Crouch. His new work, “Chess Secrets: Great Attackers,” recently published by Everyman Chess, is a marvelous tribute to the world champions Mikhail Tal and Garry Kasparov, and the three-time Soviet champion Leonid Stein. Crouch points out three different attacking styles: Tal’s magical combinations, Kasparov’s energetic pawn sacrifices and Stein’s attacking power play. The carefully selected games were played mostly in the 1970s when the creative efforts were still produced by human brains
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