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B. Postovsky, M. Glukhovsky - "Devoted to Chess: The Creative Heritage of Yuri Razuvaev" (K-5618)
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Yuri Razuvaev (1945-2012) was an outstanding Russian chess player. He had a refined positional style and for many years he was one of the leading Grandmasters in the Soviet Union. He also was a first-rate chess author and opening theoretician, always open to new ideas.
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| Language versions | English |
| Author / Authors | Boris Postovsky, Mark Glukhovsky |
| Publisher | New In Chess |
| Year of Publication | 1st edition 2019 |
| Pages | 368 |
| ISBN | 9789056918224 |
| Hardcover | No |
| Paperback | Yes |
| Downloadable | No |
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But it was as a trainer that Razuvaev was truly world-class. The long list of prominent players he worked with includes Karpov, Kramnik, Gelfand, Lautier, Fressinet, Salov, Tomashevsky, Topalov and Kosteniuk. Both Magnus Carlsen and Fabiano Caruana had sessions with Yura, as his friends called him.
It was his exceptional feeling for chess, his understanding of weaknesses and strong points in someone’s play, that made working with Razuvaev a privilege. Moreover, spending time with him was a joy because he was intelligent, cultured and witty. In this book, compiled by Boris Postovsky, dozens of chess players and contemporaries share anecdotes and insights into chess that Razuvaev gave them.
Devoted to Chess also presents Razuvaev’s best games, accessibly analysed by himself and others. His finest articles and interviews on a wide variety of subjects are also included in the book. "Studying the creative heritage of Yuri Razuvaev will bring you great benefits", writes Vladimir Kramnik in his foreword.
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Contents
007 Preface – From the compiler
009 Foreword – Memories of a chess academic
016 ‘Memories’ authors in alphabetical order
017 Chapter 1 – Memories of Razuvaev’s contemporaries – I
017 Garry Kasparov
019 Anatoly Karpov
020 Boris Spassky
022 Veselin Topalov
023 Viswanathan Anand
023 Magnus Carlsen
023 Boris Postovsky
043 Chapter 2 – Selected games
043 1962-1973 – the early years
073 1975-1978 – grandmaster
102 1979-1982 – international successes
138 1983-1986 – expert in many areas
168 1987-1995 – always easy and clean
191 Chapter 3 – Memories of Razuvaev’s contemporaries – II
191 Evgeny Tomashevsky
199 Boris Gulko
201 Boris Gelfand
202 Lyudmila Belavenets
202 Vladimir Tukmakov
204 Irina Levitina
206 Grigory Kaidanov
207 Michal Krasenkow
208 Evgeny Bareev
209 Joel Lautier
213 Michele Godena
215 Alexandra Kosteniuk
217 Chapter 4 – Articles and interviews (by and with Yuri Razuvaev)
217 Confessions of a grandmaster
218 My Gambit
234 The Four Knights Opening
252 The gambit syndrome
258 A game of ghosts
267 You are right, Monsieur De la Bourdonnais!!
276 In the best traditions of the Soviet school of chess
283 A lesson with Yuri Razuvaev
293 A sharp turn
299 Extreme
311 The Botvinnik System
315 ‘How to develop your intellect’
325 ‘I am with Tal, we all developed from Botvinnik’
331 Chapter 5 – Memories of Razuvaev’s contemporaries – III
331 Igor Zaitsev
332 Alexander Nikitin
332 Albert Kapengut
335 Alexander Shashin
337 Boris Zlotnik
337 Lev Khariton
339 Sergey Yanovsky
340 Ilya Odessky
350 Sergey Shipov
350 Adrian Mikhalchishin
355 Index of openings
356 Index of names
362 Index of annotators to games
363 Bibliography
365 Acknowledgments
