Product Description
Chapters: Alexei Shirov, Miguel Illescas, Arturo Pomar, Ricardo Calvo, Manuel Golmayo Torriente, Roberto Cifuentes, Francisco Vallejo Pons, Ruy López de Segura, Luis Ramírez de Lucena, Celso Golmayo Zúpide, Francisco José Pérez, Ramón Rey Ardid, Francesc Vicent, Arturo Bonet, Antonio Medina, Jesús de La Villa, Celso Golmayo Torriente, Antonio Rico, Alfonso Ceron, Miodrag Todorcevic, Hipólito Asis Gargatagli. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 59. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Alexei Dmitrievich Shirov (Aleksejs irovs, ) (born July 4, 1972 in Riga, Latvia) is a chess grandmaster. He has consistently ranked among the world's top players since the early 1990s, and reached a ranking as high as number four in 1998. Shirov is also a well-regarded chess author. Shirov became the World Champion (under 16) in 1988, the World Under-20 Vice-Champion in 1990 (second on tiebreaks to Ilya Gurevich), and achieved the title of Grandmaster in 1990. Shirov is the winner of numerous international tournaments: Biel 1991, Madrid 1997 (shared first place with Veselin Topalov), Ter Apel 1997, Monte Carlo 1998, Mérida 2000, two time winner of the Paul Keres Memorial International Chess Tournament in Tallinn, Estonia, with victories in 2004 and 2005 just to name a few. He won the 2005 Canadian Open Chess Championship. In 1998 Shirov's ranking rose to number four in the world. On the basis of his rating, he was invited to play a ten game match against Vladimir Kramnik to select a challenger for World Champion Garry Kasparov. Shirov won the match with two wins, no losses and seven draws. However the plans for the Kasparov match fell through when sufficient financial backing could not be found. When Kasparov instead played Kramnik for the world title in 2000, Shirov maintained that the match was invalid and ...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=360922 ... Read more

Product Description
Alexei Shirov has dazzled and inspired a generation of chess fans with his unique brand of attacking chess. The Grandmaster, originally from Riga, Latvia, is widely regarded as one of the most aggressive and inventive chess players of the modern era, an argument backed up by his wealth of amazing games, rich in tactical fireworks and extraordinary moves. "Fire on Board" begins where the best-selling first edition left off in 1996. Shirov traces his progress at the top of the chess world since that year and presents a delightful collection of his favourite games, all explained in great detail to the reader. Shirov's best games, are unravelled and explained by the man himself. This is a compilation of violent, attacking and imaginative chess. It is written by one of the world's leading players. ... Read more

Customer Reviews (10)

Shirov, shareeverything... Secret preparation, line, tips and personal lab's.
Well, this is a great book, a peace of work, i don't know a playerover 2700's, who can write better than shirov style, other GM, give many dizzy and infinite lines, and this is borned.

The people who believe meet Shirov, knows that he is a great tactical player, secrifices materia for dinamic game, always to pursuit a dramatic ending, and are games accourding this style, but Also is a graet ending player.

In this book, Shirov share, personal tips, that helps to improved chess result in tournaments, also gave its own opening lab, in this case he approach Botvinik opening.

The games were selected from 1979 to 1996, its showed the flesh style of Shirov, with a great tactical instint and his sacrifices, blaze the board, he always pursuit the path to performed a artistic manuoevre.

Shirov's approach are nice, he explained with detailed, easy to understand.

For any person who is coaching a child(parents, coach)this book help for the goal and is a nice gift, better if your child loves tactic.

For beginer player, this book contains top player games, but Shirov's approach is very easy, so don be afraid that you could not taste this book.

For Intermediate player, Shirov, gave nice tips about self preparation, and lab opening, you could find interesting. Too bad that this book has not pic's.

I hope my review could help you

Fantastic Games
Fantastic games and a good chess writer.I learned (and am learning) a lot about sacrifices and tactics from this book.

Diary of a Madman
Shirov is one of the strongest grandmasters in the world today, and this is his magnum opus.It's right up there with the collections of Tal, Fischer, Keres, and Larsen.Don't even think about passing it up!

Beginners and Intermediate players can enjoy this also
Don't believe those reviews that describe this book as suitable for advanced players only.I could enjoy this book without a board and pieces.The prose is somewhat limited.

All players deserve to be encouraged to look at his games.

Real Fire.
Please read the other reviews carefully. Like the man said, this book isNOT for beginners. Its NOT an instructional book. (Maybe an advanced manualfor GM Tactics?) It is a book for the very discriminating connoisseur ofthe Royal Game. And you should be a fairly good chess-player with an aboveaverage grasp of chess tactics to "really get" whats in thisbook!

I found a few errors in this book. I also found one instance of thesame line being analyzed twice with a different conclusion in each case!(Transposition.)

But for the most part this is an incredible chess book,crafted with great loving care by the authors. While it is probably overthe head of the average chess player, the earnest student of the game willfind much pure Gold here to mine!! Another warning: if you are the lazytype of chess player, you probably won't get much out of this book. Buy itONLY if you are looking for a real challenge!!!(Understand: I am a Master,and many times the variations left me just scratching my head!!) This isthe one chess book that, "Is looking for a few Good..." (Toborrow a phrase.) ... Read more

Product Description

Customer Reviews (4)

Shirov share evething.. very useful, notvery often GM gives nice tips
Well, I read other reviewers and certainly fire on board is a peace of art, but i don't know why the people feel the first book better.

This book its nice peace of work, and far beyong from other books that were written by a players above 2700's, There is not better chess player over 2700's that can write a book better than Shirov. well he is aheadto ahead to Kasparov, but the Shirov style are nice.

He still gives personal chess opening lab, and this time was Sicilian Schenikov variation, but he doesn't say that is Schevnikov.

He gave pic's, facts, quotes, tips and personal opinion overKasparov, all he has to said to Kasparov and the sponsor of Cazorla event. It's in this book

He gave all details about Cazorla incident, and how he defeated Kramnik, the winner has the change to play againts Kasparov, for more money and tittle. A defeated Kramnik walk away with the check and Shirov waited for the Mach, he realy was the contender against Kasparov for World Championship on 2000.

This book selected games from 1997 to 2004. He explained like Fire on Board, he gives personal opinion, lab's personal approach to the lines not like informator style, variation, variation and variation.

I recomend buy first Fire on board, and invite you to read my review. But Even if you choose this book, you made a nice purchase.
Shirov share everthing, lab, chess quotes, chess fact in that level. If you want to see how is the chess around he world, this is the book. Its Psico praparation.

For beginer, Shirov detailed well the lines, with a concept, you don't have any problem don't worry about borned book with a dizzy variation analysis.
Intermediate player, Shirov shows its preparation for a event like Linares and Corus. Full recomendation.

After the Fire... Shirov delivers a readable but disappointing 2nd
Alexei Shirov's "Fire on Board" was one of the great chess books of this generation.He told interesting stories, and most importantly, provided his chess playing audience with a book that could be devoured by almost anyone, especially serious players.

His second book, "Fire on Board Part II" fails in almost every area that his first book succeeded.GM Shirov spends a great deal of time complaining about his unfair treatment after he won his match against Vladimir Kramnik for the right to play Kasparov in a match.The story is well known, and Shirov doesn't really bring much new information to light on this travesty.

His games and his writings are weighed down by one event.He complains that he wasn't able to concentrate as well and was depressed after being refused the chance to play Kasparov, and his games show that.

Of course, Shirov is still Shirov, and he gives the reader a few truly amazing games to peruse. Unfortunately, his fire has been dimmed.If Shirov ever fully recovers from his unfair treatment, he may be able to dry the tears off his board.Until then, his use of wet wood has produced more smoke than fire.

"Fire on Board II" is still readable, but there are many other great chess books to buy.I will continue to root for Shirov, and I hope he will find some fresh kindling to rebuild the blaze that he showed us in volume I.

Incredible player
I love Shirov. He's is a younger version of Tal. Great games and analysis.

Fire on Board II - very good but not brilliant blaze like Fire I
Shirov's captivating prose deserves accolades.
The games he chose for volume II are really good, but not great. The ones in volume I are excellent, with plenty of brilliancies to boot. ... Read more

Product Description
Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Aron Nimzowitsch, Mikhail Tal, Evgeny Sveshnikov, Alexei Shirov, Vladimirs Petrovs, Edmar Mednis, Daniel Fridman, Aleksander Wojtkiewicz, Fricis Apšenieks, Alexander Shabalov, Nava Starr, Movsas Feigins, Normunds Miezis, Aivars Gipslis, Viktors Pupols, Alexander Koblencs, Karlis Ozols, Lev Gutman, Anna Hahn, Elmārs Zemgalis, Karl Wilhelm Rosenkrantz, Kārlis Bētiņš, Charles Kalme, Lucijs Endzelins, Andreas Ascharin, Leonids Dreibergs, Miervaldis Jursevskis, Jānis Klovāns, Alvis Vitolinš, Hermanis Matisons, Moissei Eljaschoff, Arkadij Naiditsch, Friedrich Amelung, Paulette Schwartzmann, Wolfgang Hazenfuss, Theodor Germann, Teodors Bergs, Wilhelm Von Stamm, Carl Friedrich Schmid, Laura Rogule. Source: Wikipedia. Free updates online. Not illustrated. Excerpt: Mikhail Tal (Latvian: ; Russian: , Michail Nechem'evi Tal', ; sometimes transliterated Mihails Tals or Mihail Tal; November 9, 1936 June 28, 1992) was a Soviet-Latvian chess player, a Grandmaster, and the eighth World Chess Champion. He was often called "Misha" (a diminutive for Mikhail) and also "The magician from Riga" for his daring combinational style. Both The Mammoth Book of the World's Greatest Chess Games (Burgess, Nunn ... Read more