Garry Kasparov on Modern Chess, Part 4: Kasparov V Karpov 1988-2009 (Modern Chess, 4)

I have all Garry Kasparov's Modern chess books. In this book, you will expect the same quality of standard as his other Modern chess books. Put it this way, if you like the previous editions, you will love this book. This book is not a beginner guide to chess or some intermediate guides for boosting your chess skills. Everything in the book is fairly advanced, more suitable for players with at least ELO 2000. Garry has analysed extensively his games against Anatoly Karpov from 1988 to 2009 using computers. The variations are very difficult to visualse unless you are a grandmaster. This book is more like a reference book, I doubt anybody in the world could fully interprete Garry's analysis. This book will not turn you into a better player, but it will give you very detailed background about the last world chess championship between Karpov and Kasparov.The book also covers the pressure Kasparov and Karpov had from the new generation players in the 1990s and 2000s. The younger players were motivated and equipped with excellent computer preparation. Karpov, the best chess player in the 1970s and early 1980s, could not battle with the new generation. Although Kasparov's dominance over the chess world eroded, he maintained the world number one status until his retirement in 2004.

As the other books, this one is full of depth and very interesting analysis. The ideas and insides about preparation are very revealing, even some revelations about player's mood before or after the games. I have two complains about this great book: one is the constant quotation of someone else's about the moves in some moments of the games, even people who does not matter so much in terms of the heart of the fight between the teo Ks, like Krasenkov for example. The oyher one is that Kasparov gives excuses for bad results or bad moves so often, and even tryes to convince the reader that his positions are almost unbeatable ones, and defeat comes just for mistakes by him and not for Karpov's merits. That aside, I find this book a must-have if a serious player wants high-level analysis and ideas.

Just finished scanning thru this book. UGH! Way too much wasted space about Kasp's break from FIDE, attempts with the PCA, and so on. Shocked at the end to find nothing about their battles in a summary form. There are comments in the book at various places about their chess relationship and styles though. Nonetheless-I thought Kasp. would summ up all these historic battles with Anatoly like he has ended previous chapters about the past greats. I was not happy with this. The K-K Matches have been completly analyzed all ready by others, so I felt he should have written an epilogue instead of coming to a total stop-goodby ending. Perhaps Kasp. is now as tired of writing as he was of playing chess when he retired?

My dad's hero.

good book

The final volume on the great clash between the two K's. A lot of deep analysis, as usual, but also a great deal of details on the drama behind the scene.

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