KHALIFMAN life and games

Alexander Khalifman has been competing in the higher echelons of world chess for many years. He ist a player with a broad opening repertoire and a distinctive style, one of his favourite stratagems being the sacrifice of material for long-term positional compensation. A former European Junior Champion and a winner of numerous Russian and international tournaments, he has recently founded a grandmaster chess school in his native St Petersburg.

Gennady Nesis, the author of this book, has been Khalifman's personal trainer for 17 years. He is therefore uniquely qualified to describe the career and annotate the best games of the new World Champion.