Hi,

I agree this is a good book, and I support the recommendations.
But it is also somewhat uneven:
some endgames are given without a single line of commentary,
while others are given three or more pages of analysis.

I missed some classic Karpov endgames,
that might have suited the book better than some of the examples that where used.
But that may be simply a matter of taste....

In the extensively analysed examples, the author tends to rely
heavily on allready publicized analysis by others I have been curious what he did find out, while
analysing with Leko..... But that question isnt answered.

Finally, one minor point about the sources listed. I missed Beljavski's books (winning endgame technique/strategy) as sources.....

Second the above comments. A superb book.

I count 41 games where Karpov had the Black pieces but the openings and early middlegames are completely unannotated so I'm not sure how much use this would be.
The book focuses entirely on the deeply annotated endgames.

I've been reading the book.  I have the Smyslov one also.  If you wanted the same kind of thing but with more analysis then the Karpov book is exactly what you're looking for.

Karolyi's Karpov book is truely amazing.  He has taken Karpov's endgames and analyzed them in more depth than Karpov ever bothered to do.  I believe that this is one of the best and most instructive chess books ever written.  Karolyi talks about how when he was a trainer for Leko that the main thing that they worked on in the endgame was to go through many of Karpov's endgames.

I give it 10/10 stars.

All of Karolyi's book are great.  I have all but the second Kasparov book now.

Has anyone seen this New in Chess book from Tibor Karolyi?  Apparently it covers 100 critical games from Karpov's career.  I would imagine that the games themselves would be very instructive, but are the comments good?  Is this worth picking up?