Seize Your Copy The Application Of Chess Theory Crafted By Efim Geller Accessible As Ebook
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Geller's career spans decades and he is one of those players more than capable of beating world champions he has a plus score against most he has played but I'm guessing could never become a world champion because he did not excel at match play.
He had more than one terrible trouncing at this form of the game,
But I think we can say of chess more than of any sport, that there is no room at the top.
To become world champion at chess is so hard! At the moment we are watching this fabulous tussle between Anand and Topalov, Geller's description of his ongoing duel with Gligoric brings to mind the role of the Catalan in this match:
Quite often the chess world witnesses some curious creative duels which sometimes last for several years.
They proceed according to the following typical scheme, Two players have played a game, On meeting each other again, they choose the same variation, without any prior agreement, of course, thus adding a psychological struggle to the purely chess struggle.
Over each of them, like a sword of Damocles, hangs the anxious thought: why is the opponent repeating the previous game On what move has he prepared a surprise, and has he in fact prepared one Should I wait for the unpleasant surprise, or
should I be the first to deviate from the familiar path And if I deviate, then when and how
One can add that the mere kibitzer shares in this anxious excitement.
Is Anand going to play the Catalan yet again Has Topalov a new response Tomorrow there is another game, Anand has just lost with black so will he retreat to the Catalan The comfort of something he has a plus score with so far.
/would have to be tempting him, He bounced back from such a situation in game two employing it, I'm guessing he's going to try it again, Great games though I'll admit I have no idea what the title meant, . . Soviet blowhardedness again, no doubt, The section featuring all his wins against world champs was however a bit of an ego trip, One of the few in Fischer's era who scored well against Bobby, Geller was "dynamic" before dynamism became chic, Here's a book of hisbest games, all of them well annotated and strategically explained, Yefim Geller has been one of the world's foremost grandmasters over the past four decades, during which time he has established a reputation as being the leading Russian authority on opening theory.
In this annotated collection of his own games, Geller shows the practical benefits of a sound understanding of opening strategy, .