From the bestselling author of How to Reassess Your Chess and Silman's Complete Endgame Course
comes a new book. Part instructional part history and part memoir International Master
Jeremy Silman pays homage to the game he loves. Chess is a strategic battle a struggle for
power and dominance. It can become an obsession or can simply be a game to be enjoyed. When
played at its highest level it is an art form. In Chess Odyssey Silman touches on all these
aspects of the game. Starting on the light side with behind-the-scenes tales of tournament life
Silman's Chess Odyssey then takes a serious turn to history and profiles the life and careers
of eleven legendary players (Adolf Anderssen Ignatz Kolisch Johannes Zukertort Siegbert
Tarrasch Wilhelm Steinitz Emanuel Lasker Frank Marshall Rudolf Spielmann Alexander
Alekhine Salo Flohr Efim Geller) including over 275 games with diagrams and analysis. In the
third part of this 540 page tome Silman writes of criminals who were also talented chess
players discusses an odd series of game at a historic interzonal tournament and memorializes
some friends. Known as one of the premiere instructional chess writers and teachers part four
concentrates on just that and includes a smattering of material on openings imbalances
tactics chess psychology and FAQ. Illustrated thoughout with black & white photographs.
