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Book Recap #29- Discussing The Longest Game by GM Jan Timman a Great Book which Tells the Story of the Kasparov-Karpov matches

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Karpov on Modern Chess - A Review

There's 50 annotated games, 17 fragments of games. The book is kind of attractive even to intermediate players like myself. He does say that he in comparison to Kaspara in Kaspara on modern chess uses a lighter analysis style but I Marco still wouldn't call it all that light. There are moments where there's a lot of variations and that doesn't bother me. And you can still play through the games and appreciate the tension as Marco and I did. That was another thing that I liked about the book. It has so much value as like a historical piece of work that the actual chess is almost like a bonus.

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