Karolyi/Aplin: Genius in the Background Klassiker winning an individual gold medal

winning an individual gold medal at Bled 2002

Fischer defeated the Soviet ace

In this pioneering work

As a bonus

Karolyi/Aplin: Genius in the Background Klassiker winning an individual gold medalGenius in the Background introduces brilliant chess that will be unfamiliar to even well read chess players. Twelve chess stars are profiled with examples of their greatest achievements, but these stars are not famous they are geniuses who stay in the background. For example, Pervakov and Afek are not household names but they compose chess studies and puzzles of such elegance and cleverness that they deserve to be famous. Top players such as Garry