Master Class Band 6: Anatoly Karpov SN_required true The Kierkegaard specialist and strong

The Kierkegaard specialist and strong amateur player (Elo 2187) has already written books about Frank Marshall and the World Championship duel Schlechter - Lasker and has given the chess world the lost manuscript of Eliskases' textbook Positional Play

Let the lion roar and the fun begin

g3 (and others)

recognizing patterns of combinations

Master Class Band 6: Anatoly Karpov SN_required true The Kierkegaard specialist and strongWhen Anatoly Karpov was invited to the Botvinnik chess school at the age of 11, the "patriarch" made a devastating judgment: "The boy has no idea about chess and therefore there is no future for him as a chess player." Seldom has the judgment on a chess talent been more wrong than this. Karpov soon developed into the best chess player in the Soviet Union and was considered a serious challenge to world champion Fischer. However, Fischer did not take