The book that you are holding in your hands is a continuation of the famous Kuzmin series. The two prior books concerning the chess creativity of Alexander Morozevich and participants in the Candidates tournaments was written for rather experienced players. That last book on the Candidates recently won the FIDE Chess Book Award of the Year 2018. This book is different in that "Together With Mamdeyarov" has been written primarily for chess players with an Elo ranging 1400-2100. While working on the book I followed two objectives. First to help the players' improvement and secondly to closer acquaint the readers with the creativity of one of the brightest contemporary grandmasters. If I were to characterize Mamedyarov's play in one word I would use the adjective "powerful" and if I were to use two words, then perhaps "power chess". Namely this energy and power are the dominants of his creativity with his opening preparation being only a supplementing factor. "Together With Mamedyarov" is not a collection of his selected games but it is primarily a study-book. It contains test positions taken from games of the famous Azeri grandmaster with detailed comments on the solutions to the tasks. In this book the solutions have been placed right after a diagram with a test except for the six positions given as a warm-up in the beginning of the chapter one. For those of you who work without the assistance of a coach would recommend that you cover the answer with a sheet of paper to avoid spoiling the benefit of solving the problem. This book is dedicated to all young chess players aspiring to improve but i also hope that it will be interesting for admirers of the Azeri "number one" chess player's creativity and his fans. Further we hope this book will be useful for coaches in their work.

About the Author
Alexey Kuzmin was born in 1963 in Moscow, Russia. He was the champion of the Central Chess Club of the USSR in 1985 and the champion of Moscow in 1986. Due to, in accordance to the rules of the Chess federation of the USSR he got the right to take part in two international tournaments. Having won round-robin tournament in Managua 1987, he became the International Master. Later Kuzmin became the price-winner of the tournament in Biel 1991 and Ostend 1991, where he got his first two GM's norms. After 1992, Kuzmin rarely took part in tournaments because of his permanent job with the Qatar National team. He became GM in 1995. Alexey Kuzmin was the winner of a number of international competitions. Between them one can mention Panchevo1989, Tehran 1991 and the open-tournaments: Doha 1992, Andorra 1998, Benasque 1999, Oberwart 2002. His highest rating 2598 was reached in the year 2000. For this period he entered in top-100 of the world rating list. Since 2004 Alexey Kuzmin has ended his chess-player practice. Kuzmin has been working as a professional coach more than 30 years. He had been second of the 12th World Champion Anatoly Karpov during the years of his struggle against Garry Kasparov (1987-1991). Since 1992 Kuzmin has been successfully working with the Qatar National team. In 2004, Alexey Kuzmin got the "FIDE Senior Trainer" title with the lifelong license for his cumulative success in coach activity. In the period since 2006 until 2015, Alexey Kuzmin had been working as standing second of GM Alexander Morozevich, the candidate to the World Champion title. In the period since 2012 until 2016, Kuzmin had been leading the author's column "Kuzmin's Harvest" in "Yearbook NIC". Since the year 2008 Alexey Kuzmin has been leading the author's columns "The actual theory with Alexey Kuzmin" in the monthly Russian magazine "64 - Chess Observer" . He has been the permanent author in "ChessBase Magazine" since 2008. This is his third book for Thinkers Publishing in his series 'Together with'


Book Information
ISBN 9789492510716
Author Alexey Kuzmin
Format Paperback
Page Count 352
Imprint Thinkers Publishing
Publisher Thinkers Publishing