Michael Basman, Gerard Welling: U Cannot Be Serious

Artikelnummer: 1578

Avant-Garde Strategy in Chess
2021, 304 Seiten, kartoniert, englisch

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This book is about co-author and international master Michael Basman, who has been an avant-garde strategist on the chessboard from his early days as a tournament player and who has collected his share of ridicule and scorn throughout the years. But he has been fairly successful, so we can ask ourselves who has been right, the master or his critics. Former world champion Mikhail Botvinnik saw through the facade of experimental play and named Basman a creative and talented player.

But even on the British player´s home turf, there was often sharp rejection of his way of playing chess. Interesting wins were more than once described as lucky, and losses as the natural consequence of sins against chess. Even in the late 1970s, when Mike Basman was a household name in British chess, British Chess Magazine was still writing he was "handicapping" himself by his unfortunate opening choices.

An interesting exception to this trend was grandmaster Raymond Keene, who back in 1982 wrote an extensive article on Basman's games from the Benedictine Masters in Manchester. He praised the strategical ideas but criticized the implementation. And he finished his article with an example of how these ideas could have found a place in one´s own strategic Arsenal.

Medium:	Buch, kartoniert
Sprache:	figurine Notation
Seitenanzahl:	304
Erscheinungsjahr:	2021

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