History of Modern Chess

Description

Chess thinking from Steinitz to AlphaZero

William Steinitz changed chess forever. Before him, the board was the stage for brilliant attacks, speculative combinations and risky gambits. Steinitz demonstrated that good chess requires systematic accumulation of small advantages, that position is the basis of tactics and that attacks only work when there is real positional foundation. That intellectual revolution gave rise to modern chess, and Craig Pritchett follows it through to the present day.

This book is not a collection of annotated games: it is a reflection on the development of chess thinking as an intellectual system. For the reader who not only wants to improve but to understand the history of the ideas that make up the game they study.

Who is this book for?

• Chess enthusiasts with historical curiosity who want to understand why the game is played as it is today
• Readers with an interest in the intellectual history of sport and the systems of thought that have transformed the game
• Advanced players who want to place what they study in technical books in historical context

Technical details

• Author: Craig Pritchett
• Publisher: La Casa del Ajedrez
• ISBN: 9788412510089
• Pages: 264
• Year: 2022
• Language: Spanish
• Level: All levels (history and ideas, not technical)

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