Karklins - Modern Grandmaster Chess as Exemplified in 1964 USSR Zonal Tournament

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Seller: billbrock ✉️ (514) 100%, Location: Chicago, Illinois, US, Ships to: US & many other countries, Item: 225092928403 Karklins - Modern Grandmaster Chess as Exemplified in 1964 USSR Zonal Tournament. Updated August 21, 2023. I found a box with several additional copies., and reduced the price accordingly. Karklins, Andrew. Modern Grandmaster Chess as Exemplified in the 1964 USSR Zonal Tournament.  Chicago: Chicago Chess Books, 1974. 119 pages with diagrams, photographs, tables and index. Small quarto (10 1/4" x 7") bound in original publisher's beige cloth with black lettering to spine. First edition.  (Note: I still have a few original hand-foldable dust jackets in mediocre condition. I will ship with a "fold at your own peril" dust jacket. If you bought a copy earlier and send me a SASE—message for address—I will be happy to send one "fold at your own peril" dust jackets gratis.) The 1964 USSR Zonal had an incredibly strong field: future World Champion Boris Spassky, two players who missed the World Championship by the slimmest of margins, David Bronstein and Viktor Korchnoi, the legendary Leonid Stein and Yefim Geller, and the superstrong Alexei Suetin and Ratmir Kholmov. Only the top three were guaranteed to qualify for the Interzonals, so the tournament was exceptionally bloodthirsty. Andrew Karklins began this book in 1964, when he was a 2100 player. He finished it ten (!) years later, when he was a 2450 player (roughly equivalent to 2550 USCF today) and had finished with an even score in the 1973 US Invitational Championship (ahead of Bisguier and Mednis). The book is a labor of love (see the quotation from the foreword below). Hardcover, Descriptive Notation. These are uncirculated first editions, clean and tight, with normal foxing after sitting in a cardboard box for 48 years. The price has gone up because this is our last copy for sale!  100% of all net sales proceeds will go directly to the author, FM Andrew Karklins. See my listings for another Karklins book. "When the 1964 USSR Zonal appeared I approached the games with a good deal of anticipation. They (the games) didn't let me down—they were really 'richly incomprehensible.' It seemed to me that I'd really learn something about great chess here. There was scarcely an 'obvious game' in the whole tournament (at the time I thought the criterion for great chess was its degree of what might be called 'purposeful incomprehensibility')." [...] "After considering the games for awhile one thing soon became clear—to find out what was going on in them it would be necessary to work out detailed annotations of at least several of the more paradoxically interesting ones. I decided that I would simply have to take the time to answer every question that I had about a game at every move."  [...] "The title by no means is intended to suggest that the annotator knows everything about grandmaster chess. Rather, the present work is a description of grandmaster chess from the outside. It is from the reader's point of view and this is something the annotator had in mind throughout the work (as a matter of fact he was a 'reader')."
  • Condition: Very Good
  • Book Title: Modern Grandmaster Chess as Exemplified in 1964 USSR
  • Topic: Board Games, Chess
  • Format: Hardcover
  • Publication Year: 1974
  • Literary Movement: Modernism
  • Era: 1960s
  • Author: Andrew Karklins
  • Language: English
  • Year: 1974
  • Special Attributes: 1st Edition
  • City: Chicago
  • Subject: Games & Puzzles

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