I picked this up after reading Manny's review. It's a very cool book.What I like about it so far is that it presents the games, along with variations, but it also gives biographical information about the players, as well as focusing the reader's attention on the key themes of the game before hand, ...
This is a very good anthology of the greatest chess games of all time, but it does raise the question of what selection criteria to use. After a while, you realize that chess games are just another form of literature, and the criteria are in many ways similar to the ones you would, for example, use ...
It's a good book. But not quite as good as the title.
John Nunn is a very clever guy. He went to Oxford at age 15, and received a PhD in Algebraic Topology when he was 20. He became a chess Grandmaster the same year, and after a while gave up mathematics to turn pro. For a while, he was one of the world's top ten players. Then he started writing chess ...
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