-His abrasive, biting wit shines through his prose even in translation ... always sparkling and provocative.- -- Chess News
Known as -The Father of Modern Chess- and -The Stormy Petrel of the Chess World, - Aron Nimzovich (1886-1935) transformed his greatest performance into a brilliantly eccentric and entertaining book. In this account of his victory at the 1929 Carlsbad Tournament, Nimzovich offers a captivating retrospective of his triumph over some of the best of his contemporaries: Capablanca, Spielman, Maroczy, Rubinstein, Marshall, Euwe, Bogolyubov, Tartakower, Samisch,...