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Re: Great tournament books? San Luis 2005 Review
Reply #3 - 02/27/09 at 02:20:16
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There are chess players who still haven't added San Luis 2005 to their collections after all of the great reviews and recommendations?
  
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Re: Great tournament books? San Luis 2005 Review
Reply #2 - 02/27/09 at 01:37:38
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While not a tournament book, From London to Elista will probably be interesting to you.  It's a fantastic account of Kramnik's three successful matches for the World Championship told from the perspective of his seconds, especially Evgeny Bareev.

Your recommendation of San Luis 2005 makes me very curious to see the book and perhaps even buy it.  Thanks for the suggestion!
  
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Re: Great tournament books? San Luis 2005 Review
Reply #1 - 02/26/09 at 20:52:47
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Reggio Emilia 2007/2008 (Paperback)
by Mihail Marin (Author), Yuri Garrett (Author) 

This one is not yet out, but judging from the authors, I expect it will be a very worthwhile. I really like how Marin explains chess. 

Btw, personally, i don't care about photos of chess players. But maybe I am in the minority  Undecided
  

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Great tournament books? San Luis 2005 Review
02/26/09 at 20:41:40
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I have been reading San Luis 2005 from Quality chess, This is a great book I had to post about It. The annotations are really thorough they predict almost every question you might have, there is a great discussion of the different matchups of the 8 players.

I really like that each game has a colour photo of the players it makes it like you are there. e.g there is a great photo of an exhausted Topalov and Kramnik after their 97 move draw.

also they have put plenty of Diagrams in just the right places, there is humour in the annotations. Outstanding this really is the 21st Century successor to Zurich 53.

Can any one suggest any other good tournament books?
  
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