Together with Mamedyarov - Alexey Kuzmin
Together with Mamedyarov by Alexey Kuzmin
This is a continuation of the famous Kuzmin series. The two prior books concerning the chess creativity of Alexander Morozevich and participants in the Candidates tournaments was written for rather experienced players. That last book on the Candidates recently won the FIDE Chess Book Award of the Year 2018.
This book is different in that Together With Mamdeyarov has been written primarily for chess players with an Elo ranging 14002100. The book follows two main objectives. First to help the players improvement and secondly to closer acquaint the readers with the creativity of one of the brightest contemporary grandmasters. To characterise Mamedyarovs play in one word we could use the adjective powerful. Namely this energy and power are the dominants of his creativity with his opening preparation being only a supplementing factor.
"Together With Mamedyarov is not a collection of his selected games but it is primarily a study-book. It contains test positions taken from games of the famous Azeri grandmaster with detailed comments on the solutions to the tasks.
In this book the solutions have been placed right after a diagram with a test except for the six positions given as a warm-up in the beginning of the chapter one. For those of you who work without the assistance of a coach would recommend that you cover the answer with a sheet of paper to avoid spoiling the benefit of solving the problem.
The tests tasks are intended for training:
