Description Welcome to Tiger�s Den Tigran Petrosian, the ninth world chess champion, was one of the deepest thinkers the chess world has ever seen.
This splendid collection of annotated games will not only have enormous appeal to King�s Indian aficionados, but to all chessplayers who wish to expand their understanding of the strategic concepts underpinning the royal game as a whole..
Contents include: Preface by Levon Aronian
Foreword by Igor Zaitsev
The Classical Variation
The S�misch System
The Fianchetto Variation
The Benoni
Other Systems
Portrait of a Chess Player
Lessons from Petrosian
The Problem of the Exchange; �Furman�s Bishop�; �Pawns are the soul of chess�
Playing by Analogy
Maneuvering Battle
Experiments
Realist or Romantic?
The King�s Indian with Colors � and Flanks � Reversed
Appendix
Index of Tabiyas
ECO/Opening/Tabiya Indexes.
He does this with the presentation of almost 300 deeply annotated, complete games.
The author�s objective was, first of all, to reveal the richness of Petrosian�s chess world and to follow the strategic development of the King�s Indian Defense through the prism of Petrosian�s creative work.
Now, for the first time, Russian international master Igor Yanvarjov has put together a superb collection of virtually all the known games played by Petrosian � with both colors � in the King�s Indian Defense and other closely related Indian structures.
His handling of complex strategic positions was legendary.
Description Welcome to Tiger�s Den Tigran Petrosian, the ninth world chess champion, was one of the deepest thinkers the chess world has ever seen
