Genius in the Background

by Tibor Karolyi and Nick Aplin

Genius in the Background introduces brilliant chess that will be unfamiliar to even well-read chess players. Twelve chess stars are profiled with examples of their greatest achievements, but these stars are not famous - they are geniuses who stay in the background.

For example, Pervakov and Afek are not household names but they compose chess studies and puzzles of such elegance and cleverness that they deserve to be famous. The names of top...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1906552371
• ISBN13: 9781906552374
• Release Date: November 2009
• Publisher: Quality Chess
• Length: 384 Pages
• Weight: 1.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 9.4" x 6.7"