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# Karpov's Strategic Wins: The Making Of A Champion 1961-1985 (Volume 1)

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Karpov's Strategic Wins: The Making Of A Champion 1961-1985 (Volume 1)

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## Customer Reviews

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    Excellent!
  

*by A***R on Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on March 9, 2023*

I am enjoying playing over the games and trying to understand the thought process of the 12th, world champion. This is a must have for chess enthusiasts, highly recommended

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    Destined to Become a Classic
  

*by R***S on Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on May 6, 2013*

Anatoly Karpov's games are legendary among chess enthusiasts.  Some GM's have even acknowledged that their path to the GM title involved a long and intensive study of Karpov's play.  Were it not for one Garry Kasparov, Karpov would have likely held the title of World Champion for 20 years, so strong was his play for so long.  This 2 volume work may well be the best extant work on Karpov's games, with competition only from Karpov's own "My Best Games", which includes 100 games.  This volume alone has 76 Karpov games, and several dozen other games as a bonus.  This work, as the title implies, focuses only on Karpov's strategic wins.  While Anatoly could play great attacking games on occasion, his real claim to fame is as a strategic genius, and it is his strategic play that gets center attention here.  Karpov was known for his ability to slowly and surely squeeze his opponent like a python, often placing most of his pieces on his own first rank, where their influence still strangled the opponent's postion.  The notes to the games show that this work is a real labor of love.  Karolyi gives clear, well thought out explanations of the play.  Analysis of variations is in plenty of depth, but the real shining feature is the rich, plentiful explanations in WORDS of what is going on.  There is a tremendously rich education in positional/strategic play to be found here.  Here is just one of hundreds of such notes, taken from Karpov-Unzicker, 1974 Olympiad:  (after 35.Bh5!) "Completing the manoeurvre.  In this particular case the side w/ extra space is happy to exchage a pair of pieces, considering that we are talking about Black's best defensive piece.  The text move illustrates another important principle: in positions w/ a space advantage , one of the most effective strategies is to attack on both flanks.  The defending side may be able to protect one weakness, but the difficulties associated w/ transferring defensive pieces from one side to the other will often prove insurmountable."  It is not often that I have seen so much distilled chess wisdom in a games collection.  In addition to the pleasure of playing over the games of one of the all-time greats, you will be slowly but surely increasing your strategic understanding, and hence your results, as you play through these masterpieces.  Highly recommended.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 







  
  
    Outstanding book!
  

*by T***O on Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on November 15, 2022*

You must have these two volumes in your chess library!

## Frequently Bought Together

- Karpov's Strategic Wins: The Making Of A Champion 1961-1985
- Karpov's Strategic Wins 2: The Prime Years: 1986-2009

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