Kasparov: How His Predecessors Misled Him About Chess

Over the past few years the great chess player Garry Kasparov has written five

best-selling books praising the contributions to chess made by the previous

world champions. The series is called My Great Predecessors. As a reaction to

this wonderful series of books, leading chess writer Tibor Károlyi has written this

imaginary sixth volume. In gently humorous – but chessically serious – style, the

author imagines Kasparov is annotating over 70 of his own lost games, and

blaming all these defeats on the bad influence of each of the previous world

champions, providing in-depth analysis to show how he was misled by them.

The book also serves as a highly instructive, practical chess book – to beat

Kasparov, the greatest player of all time, took some pretty special chess, and

readers will enjoy learning from this. It is astonishing how the author has

managed to find so many games that exhibit uncanny similarities between

Kasparov and his predecessors, which makes the content of the book extremely

plausible – as if Kasparov himself were writing it. This is a brilliant and totally

original chess book that could only have been written by someone with great

knowledge of Kasparov and the past world champions.