Gambit Verlag, paperback, Englisch, ISBN: 978-1-904600-82-4, 160
Seiten, 2007.
Andrei Volokitin is one of a rare breed of players: he
achieved a ranking in the worlds top 20 while still a teenager, playing dynamic
and often brilliant chess. Although we cannot all aspire to emulate his
achievements, there is much that we can learn from his training methods, his
games and his general approach to chess. These topics are the subject of this
book, written in collaboration with his trainer.
The core material of the
book is 375 positions where the reader is given a task or asked a question.
These tasks resemble those that players regularly face over the board, and are
especially useful from a training viewpoint. Sometimes we are told we need to
find a combination, but often the task is simply to decide on a move. It is for
us to determine whether to play quietly or stake everything on a sacrificial
attack!
The examples are all from recent years, and so even the most
zealous reader of chess literature will have seen few of them previously. Many
of the positions are from Volokitins own games, so we get the inside story on
some truly spectacular chess. We are also presented with fine examples from
Grabinskys training files, carefully collected and graded over the years for
their instructive merit. The commentaries and detailed solutions explain the key
issues in each position, and also convey the authors philosophy of chess and
their love for the game.
Grandmaster Andrei Volokitin
was born in 1986 in Lvov. In 2004, he won the Ukrainian Championship and was a
member of the team that won the Chess Olympiad in Calvia. In the January 2005
rating list he was, at age 18, placed in the worlds top 20 for the first time.
He has won many prizes in junior championships and major international
events.
International Master Vladimir Grabinsky is the
coach of the Ukrainian youth team. In addition to Volokitin, his pupils include
several other players who have achieved international titles at an early
age.
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