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Bolat Asanov’s short novels from his chess happenings. Can you recognize the real persons from his stories?
Description
Bolat has managed to tackle an insurmountable task—to write a book about the chess world for everyone.
For me, someone who has lived in this world almost all my life, it is particularly valuable. After all, there indeed is a problem with the stereotypical perception of a chess player as someone who is unsociable, maladapted, absorbed by the labyrinths of variations, and removed from real life. How this stereotype was created is another story, but two great writers, Vladimir Nabokov and Stefan Zweig, doubtlessly played a big part.
But the real chess players are far away from this eccentric image. How they really are is what the reader will be able to grasp from Bolat Assanov’s stories, where
the chess world is described honestly, sympathetically, and with a subtle sense of humor.
Alexander Khalifman, former World Chess Champion
