World Champion Chess for Juniors

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If you want to improve your chess the best place to start is looking how the champs did it. Grandmaster Joel Benjamin introduces all seventeen World Chess Champions and describes their historical significance, what is important about their style of play and what you can learn from them. Benjamin presents two games by each champion, concentrating on instruction rather than variations. Capablanca, Aljechin, Botvinnik, Tal, Karpov, Kasparov, and all the others up to present World Champion Magnus Carlsen: how they open the game, develop their pieces, conduct an attack or defend when necessary, is being explained in lessons accessible to all post-beginners. Two Americans are included in this highly instructive manual. Of course the crystal-clear style of Bobby Fischer, the 11th World Chess Champion, results in some very memorable and useful lessons. Joel Benjamin has also included Paul Morphy, the 19th century master from New Orleans who was clearly the best of the world during his short and dramatic career. Studying World Champion Chess for Juniors will be an extremely rewarding experience for ambitious youngsters. A lot of trainers and coaches will find it worthwhile to include it in their curriculum. It includes exercises and suggestions for further study.