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Anatoly Karpov the 12th

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Authors' Preface

This book is a unique reaction to a

unique collection of creative work.

that we briely considered the title he

Great Successor would be appropriate.

This present book now provides us

with an obvious opportunity to

introduce some humour, particularly as

Kasparov - we think - subconsciously

favoured some teasing of the great

players and former champions more so

than others. By doing so he invited

others to have ajoke at his expense too.

Ater writing two books on Humour in chess - sometimes a rare

Kasparov's astonishing career, cover

ing his flnal period of active play rom

1993 to 2005, we realised that there

were similarities between Garry's

games and some of his predecessors -

and this has opened the door for a little

bit of riendly leg-pUlling!

commodity - needs to take its rightul

place.

The Hungarian half of our

co-authorship played in tounaments

with Garry and even faced him across

the board in 1980 and 1981. The 1980

World Junior Championship was

particularly memorable for Tibor,

because of the leisure hours he spent

with Grry himself - during which time

the uture world champion revealed his

keen sense of humour.

Or oiginal idea to write an aticle

for the satirical chess magazine

Kingpin took on greater proportions

as we found more and more games

resembling those of pst champions.

The increasing number of examples

changed the single article into a series

of rticles. We had originally intended

to look only at the post-World War II

champions but then discovered so

many comparable games rom earlier

times that we were encouraged to write

a whole book!

This characteristic is something that

has not been relected in his interviews

n recent times, although there were

glimpses of it when he came to ite

his My Great Predecessors books.

It goes without saying that games

played by world champions can be

especially interesting, entetaining and

instructive. But it is also well worth

loocing at them rom a new angle - and

with a lighter touch.

There was a stage duing the ing

of Kasparov s Fighting Chess J & 2

When Garry Kasparov, the most

successul world champion, retired, he

published a series of books under the

title My Great Predecessors and it was

the stimulation from reading his

excellent series that prompted the

present work.

Authors' Preface

Alithors' Preface

The temptation is also there to look at

some of Kasparov's losses - which are

in fact well worth analysing. Anyone

who manages to force resignation rom

the most successul chess player ever,

clearly deserves due recognition for

their triumph.

contact him at all and the words are

ours" We just put our ideas into his

mouth in the following way.

Of course, I must al s o take some

responsibility for my losses, but you

will see that for the paticular defeats

shown here the world c hamp i ons are

mostly to blame because they misled

me - sometimes seriously. Ater all, it

was they who demonstrated the ideas n

the first place.

soten, but not erase, the negative efect

they had on me.

• • * •

So as to underline the fact that this is

not a totally serious book, I do not lay

out the material in the conventional

way. Instead of starting rom the distant

past and working my way towards the

present day, I adopt a different plan

based on the fact that the closer a

champion was to me in time, the more

energy I spent on examining his play.

My series on the world champions is

enteing its final phase. n t hese books,

I have covered the development of

chess culture. Thank God they sold lke

hot cakes. I wrote nice things about all

the 12 champions, which is what they

justly deserved, but I only showed the

rosier side of ther chess.

In no way does the present book try

to erode the tremendous respect

Kasparov has rightfully eaned

with his stunning and breathtaking

performances. It just reminds everyone

emphatically what a great game chess

is and that even the greatest players

make mistakes and do lose

sometimes! The royal game is just so

complicated ...

Can you imagine how hard it has

been for me to hold back my true

opinions for so long? But now I cannot

remain silent any longer and must show

how the champions really played.

Though I have to admit that their games

are very entetaining, that can only

So I look at the c h a mpions n reverse

order, starting with An at oly Karpov,

who was crowned before me as the 12th

world champion.

By now most of the books have been

sold, so it is time to tell the rest of the

story. My career has been the best a

chessplayer has ever had and, all things

considered, I am satisied with how

things went. On the other hand, I am

convinced I did not achieve everything

that I could have done: for example, I

lost more games than was necessay.

nd in the present work I reveal for the

first time how I came to lose quite a

few important games simply because I

copied the world champions. It's a pity

that I dido't gain a uller appreciation

of their methods.

Also we consider that the My Great

Predecessors books represent a superb

contribution to chess culture and

wamly recommend that both non

professionals and serious players read

the whole series, as Garry's chess

genius shines brightly through his deep

analysis.

One of the intentions of the present

book is to take a look at some lesser

known mastepieces of the champions,

as well as presenting the better-known

examples, with shon explanations. We

hope you enjoy and len rom these

games.

Almost all chessplayers read books

on the world champions. I did so as

well and in my childhood I even went

through their games in great detaiL n

fact I requently tried to memorise

their games, but it is more likely that

they planted themselves in the

subconscious pan of my brain. Their

games were praised so many times and

in so many places that I came to trust

them implicitly.

It is great that Garry wrote his series,

but if I were him I would have

produced another version for reading

on New Year's Eve'

Our book is designed to be light

heaned. So before we allow Gary to

speak, let us emphasise that we did not

Anatoly Karpov the 12 th

natoly Karpov was my immediate

predecessor. He held the title from

1975 until 1985 and certainly had an

immense effect on my chess. I played

him 23 times in regular tonaments.

There is nothing special about that

but the 144 games in the ive world

championship matches we contested is

unique in the history of chess.

Despite this large number of games,

you might think they had little negative

efect on my style. Of course I leaned

to play simple positions - there were

many of them - and I improved my

technique in this area.

In this book J would like to

concentrate on the negative efects

that I experienced from the world

champions - efects which prevented

me from becoming even more

devastating in my play.

One idea J picked up rom Karpov was to push the a- or h-pawns all the way

-and win. Below are positions rom Karpov's games illustrating this theme and

then positions from my own games where I followed his plan.

S.Sazoniev - A.Karpov

A.Karpov - G.Kasparov

A.Karpov - P.MarJand

A.Karpov - G.Kasparov

Readers note: troughout the text you will read the words see diagram with

a reference to a certain page. It's the diagTams in the frames to which we refer.

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