Timman: Curaçao 1962 - The Battle of Minds that Shook the Chess World Klassiker explained by French chess master

explained by French chess master and successful chess author Emmanuel Neiman

journalistically pointed style of presentation is no coincidence: the book is based on Harald Keilhack's columns in the Stuttgarter Zeitung

Incorrect Play

while avoiding loads of opening theory

including detailed annotations of both of their pre-1971 games

Timman: Curaçao 1962 - The Battle of Minds that Shook the Chess World Klassiker explained by French chess masterA fresh look at the games of the legendary Candidates Tournament The 1962 Candidates' Tournament in Curaao was one of the fiercest chess battles of all time . At the height of the Cold War, eight players contested for the right to challenge World Champion Mikhail Botvinnik. The format of the tournament was a grueling quadruple round robin. Twenty eight games were to be played on the tropical island, in a contest that lasted two months. The air