Eight Good Men: The 2020-2021 Candidates Tournament
Available in paperback, hardback, Amazon Kindle and Forward Chess
*****Short-listed for the FIDE Book of the Year prize 2022*****
The 2020-2021 FIDE Candidates Tournament held in Ekaterinburg, starring super-grandmasters Ian Nepomniachtchi, Maxime Vachier-Lagrave, Anish Giri, Fabiano Caruana, Ding Liren, Alexander Grischuk, Kirill Alekseenko and Wang Hao, delivered an awesome display of fighting chess. Grandmaster and FIDE Senior Trainer Dorian Rogozenco, coach of the German national team from 2014-2020, provides a comprehensive move by move analysis of all 56 games together with an assembled Dream Team of 13 super-class GM guest commentators including Garry Kasparov and Boris Gelfand. The commentary covers opening strategy and novelties, middlegame battles and instructive endgames, psychology and practical observations, together comprising a swathe of learning material valuable to players from club level to titled masters. The book is illustrated with a selection of official FIDE photographer Lennart Ootes’s best shots from both halves of the event.
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"I greatly enjoyed this book. Rogozenco's comments are consistently excellent and the different guest annotators spice up the material nicely. A really good book." - Grandmaster Matthew Sadler, New In Chess magazine.
"The annotations are heavy in both explanatory prose and analysis, which should delight both the casual observer and the serious player who wants to learn something from the games of the present day chess elite. In addition to the games, there are also plenty of photos from the entire tournament, shot by the official photographer Lennart Ootes, all of which makes it pretty much the best possible account of a fantastic event." - FIDE Master Carsten Hansen, American Chess Magazine
About the author(s)
Dorian Rogozenco
Dorian Rogozenco is a German-Romanian Grandmaster originally from Chisinau, Moldova, born in 1973. He graduated from the Sports Faculty of the State Pedagogical University in Chisinau in 1994 and gained the Grandmaster title in 1996. He was coached by Vyacheslav...
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