He had this to say about this particular book: “I would go with the Second Piatigorsky Cup where eight of the participants annotated all of their games (Donner did nine and Bobby sadly only one).
His book (with co-author George Stefanovic) on the 1992 rematch between Fischer and Spassky ( No Regrets: Fischer-Spassky 1992) is one of the finest match books ever written. His latest book, Chess Duels: My Games With the World Champions is a fantastic read.
His Play Winning Chess series is highly thought of, and is a favorite of players from beginner to 1800. chess champion, Yasser is also a fantastic chess writer and has written many fine chess books. 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.A grandmaster and four-time U.S.
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. 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. 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. As a reaction to this wonderful series of books, leading chess writer Tibor Károlyi has written this imaginary sixth volume. The series is called ”My Great Predecessors”. 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.