Khalifman - My Life and Games

The 1999 World Championship in Las Vegas produced a surprise winner - after a month-long battle, the Russian grandmaster Alexander Khalifman emerged from this grueling knock-out event to become the 14th FIDE World Champion. Alexander Khalifman has been competing in the higher echelons of world chess for many years. He is a player with a broad opening repertoire and a distinctive style, one of his favorite stratagems being the sacrifice of material for long-term positional compensation. A former European Junior Champion and a winner of numerous Russian and international tournaments, he has recently founded a grandmaster chess school in his native St. Petersburg. (6 3/4 x 9 3/4, 208 pages, diagrams)

About the author

Gennady Nesis has worked with Alexander Khalifman since his junior days and was part of his team when he won the World Championship in Las Vegas in 1999. He is uniquely qualified to write this book.

Summary

This book provides an inside account of Khalifman's life and chess career, describing his emergence from promising junior to World Champion

Product details

• Authors: Nesis Gennady, Alexander Khalifman, Gennady Nesis
• Publisher: Everyman Chess
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.10.2000
• EAN: 9781857442120
• ISBN: 978-1-85744-212-0
• No. of pages: 208
• Dimensions: 249 mm x 178 mm x 9 mm
• Weight: 488 g
• Illustrations: d.
• Series: Everyman Chess; Everyman Chess
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Guides > Sport; Non-fiction book > Politics, society, business > Biographies, autobiographies