Unsurprisingly superficial. Chess players, sadly, rarely are able to orient adequately in life. This had been marvellously reflected in a well-known Nabokov's novel and this book is a testament to this. An ex-chess-champion who decided to become a yet another safe-proclaimed Cassandra of a better-th...
“In 2016, nineteen years after my loss to Deep Blue, the Google-backed AI project DeepMind and its Go-playing offshoot AlphaGo defeated the world’s top Go player, Lee Sedol. More importantly, as also as predicted, the methods used to create AlphaGo were more interesting as an IA Project than anythin...
I was trying to think how I could present this marvellous study in paranoia and obsession to the non-chess-playing reader - and, the very same day, we saw Black Swan. Well, after that it was obvious. Just close your eyes and try to imagine Garry Kasparov in a tutu...DRAMATIS PERSONAEGARRY KASPAROV.....
Garry Kasparov, you will have noticed by now, is one of my heroes... but, all the same, I must reluctantly admit that this is a terrible book, and downright depressing to read. Kasparov clearly started the project with high hopes. He wants to show you how the skills you pick up from top-level chess ...
When Ingmar Bergman died in 2007, his literary executor found a number of sealed packages containing several projects in various stages of completion. I am proud to present extracts from Bergman's unfinished masterpiece:Åttonde Inseglet (The Eighth Seal)DRAMATIS PERSONAETHE KNIGHT......Garry Kasparo...
Garry Kasparov's books are always seething with emotion, but it's a little hard to see that if you're not a chessplayer yourself. This book is a drenched-in-nostalgia look at the 70s, the Golden Age of chess analysis. Fischer had just captured the world title mainly due to his stunning opening prepa...
We're now up to Karpov, and the tone of the series becomes very personal. Kasparov/Karpov has several times been listed as one of the great sporting rivalries of all time. They played five matches for the world championship, all of which were extremely close, and many bitter words were said on both ...
There's this SF short story by Algis Budrys that I've always liked, called Nobody Bothers Gus. It's a superman story with a twist. The whole action takes place inside the space of about an hour, in the garden of Gus's nice little house. There's this government employee who's been given the unpleasan...
The second volume of Kasparov's magnum opus covers Euwe, Botvinnik, Smyslov and Tal, who were World Champions between 1935 and 1963. In contrast to Volume 1, this one is mostly about people the author knew well. The tone is correspondingly more personal; particularly since the central figure, who to...
In 1999, I played a game of chess against World Champion Garry Kasparov, which was instantly recognized as one of the great games of all time. Although that's absolutely true, I'm afraid it's not quite as good as it sounds. I omitted one tiny detail: I wasn't playing on my own. To be exact, I was pa...
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