Do you read books?

@tpr said in #50:

What rating level is this book good for? Is it highly technical?

"What rating level is this book good for?"

• For all rating levels. It contains 210 superb games from arguably the strongest/largest tournaments of all time with superb comments by the runner-up. You can study the games and the comments at any level and later come back to them when you become stronger.

@tpr said in #52:

Excellent, thank you.

It is a marvelous book. It contains all games of the tournament, not some selection of brilliant games.
There is everything in it: crisp attacks, staunch defenses, subtle endgames, positional grinding...
The comments reveal how the author, top grandmaster and runner-up, was thinking himself in his games.

@tpr said in #54:

It is a marvelous book. It contains all games of the tournament, not some selection of brilliant games.
There is everything in it: crisp attacks, staunch defenses, subtle endgames, positional grinding...
The comments reveal how the author, top grandmaster and runner-up, was thinking himself in his games.

I think I will enjoy reading about those games, I'm a frequent consumer of matches of the 2000s' to 2020s', and I'm interested in this period before Fischer's entrance to the world stage.

A tournament like that with 15 players, double round robin, 30 rounds is impossible to organize and finance nowadays.
There were strong tournaments later like Linares, but no tournament book authored by the winner or runner-up.
They do not have the time to do so, as they are too busy traveling, playing, preparing...