Product Description

Mihail Marin examines and explains the contribution from the chess legends who influenced him strongly in his own development. This personal and sympathetic journey into the best chess of yesterday is guaranteed to help the readers in their games. As we all know: those who do not learn from history are doomed to repeat it. The chapters in this book discuss: Rubinstein's excellent rook endgame technique; Alekhine's expertise with the heavy pieces; Botvinnik's ability for deep analysis; Tal's handling of heavy pieces vs. minor pieces; Petrosian's positional exchange sacrifices; Fischer's strength with the king's bishop; Karpov's handling of bishops of opposite colour; and, Korchnoi the rebel.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #320878 in Books
• Published on: 2007-06-26
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 344 pages

Customer Reviews

Enthusiatic Deep Analysis of Top Players Endings
Marin writes very enthusiastically about mainly the various endgame styles of some great players. Some of the analysis is very deep with long variations.

Good chapters on Rubinstein and Korchnoi- the best info I have seen on these 2 apart from Korchnoi's own books.


I was amazed at how Karpov squeezed out wins in very barren looking opposite colour bishop endings.