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Reggio Emilia 2007/2008 |  | Authors: Mihail Marin, Yuri Garrett
Publisher: Quality Chess Europe AB
Category: Book
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Sales Rank: 1567700
Media: Paperback
Pages: 208
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.1
Dimensions (in): 9.3 x 6.6 x 0.6
ISBN: 1906552320
Dewey Decimal Number: 794
EAN: 9781906552329
ASIN: 1906552320
Publication Date: April 1, 2009
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Product Description
Reggio Emilia is a famous chess tournament in Italy. This book celebrates the 50th edition of this distinguished event. All the games are analysed, many of them by the players themselves: those sharing their chess wisdom include award-winning author Mihail Marin, rising star David Navara, and the legendary Viktor Korchnoi. Photographs and entertaining stories take the reader behind the scenes at a top-class chess tournament. Written by Mihail Marin and Yuri Garrett. Mihail Marin is a chess grandmaster from Romania. His previous books for Quality Chess have established him as one of the world's finest chess authors. Yuri Garrett is an Italian chess publisher and tournament organizer.
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Beautiful tournament book January 29, 2010
johnnyqb (United States)
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
This book, Reggio Emilia 2007/2008, clicks on all cylinders. First of all, anything Mihail Marin writes comes across as a labor of love. This is a Grandmaster who just seems to love chess and all chess players. His annotations are a great mix of text and moves. One of the things that is so fascinating about this book is that contains modern annotated grandmaster games, but the mix of openings gives it an "older classic" flavor. There are more Italian Games than Sicilians here, and a healthy dose of Ruy Lopez, French, and English openings. This fact has made this book much more accessible to me than many modern books, which are filled with Sicilians of mind-bending complexity. This is good old fashioned chess, the kind most of us wish we could play, in the openings we play, but played by GMs. The production of the book is first rate (very high quality paper and binding), and there are even result tables for every Reggio Emilia tournament in history. There is a photograph of the action for every single game in the tournament, and quite a few photos of post-mortem sessions. This adds to the overall effect of a lovingly produced book. There are biolgraphies of all the players. The book is even presented in very readable English, and that is quite a rarity in books put out by Quality Chess. Perhaps that is because they had three proofreaders. There are also annotations by the players themselves, all of whom seemed to come together to help make this an extraordinary book documenting a modern tournament. This one will probably not sell a ton, due to the lack of big names (other than Korchnoi), but this is an extremely enjoyable chess book, one of the best I have bought in the last couple years. Remarkable and highly recommended.
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