Books about Leading Modern Chessplayers by Edward Winter

Books about Leading Modern Chessplayers

Edward Winter

Below are lists, as comprehensive as possible, of books about (not by) Viswanathan Anand, Levon Aronian, Magnus Carlsen, Fabiano Caruana, Boris Gelfand, Vassily Ivanchuk, Sergey Karjakin, Vladimir Kramnik, Hikaru Nakamura and Veselin Topalov:

Viswanathan Anand

• Führende Schachmeister der Gegenwart Wiswanathan Anand by N. Heymann (Maintal, 1992)
• Viswanathan Anand: 158 victorias 1984/1992 by J.S. Morgado and R. Alvarez (Buenos Aires, 1992)
• Viswanathan Anand (Elo 2600 series, USA, circa 1992)
• Anand 222 partidas (Madrid, 1993)
• Vishy Anand: Chess Super-Talent by D. Norwood (London, 1995)
• Vishwanatan Anand (Szolnok, circa 1995)
• Vishy Anand by N. Kalinichenko (Moscow, 2004)
• The Chess Greats of the World: Anand by D. Lovas (Kecskemét, 2007)
• V. Anand in 2008! by D.R. Lonsdale (Scarborough, 2009)
• Viswanathan Anand vs Veselin Topalov and the Bul[g]arian chess players by S. Sergiev (Sofia, 2010)
• Great Chess Combinations Vishy Anand by A. Kalinin (Moscow, 2011)
• Anand by V.A. Leonov (Nizhny Novgorod, 2013)
• Viswanathan Anand Quíntuple campeón del Mundo by Z. Franco Ocampos (Buenos Aires, 2013)
• Anand move by move by Z. Franco (London, 2014)
• Karjakin, Anand, Adams, Domínguez by V.A. Leonov (Nizhny Novgorod, 2017).

Levon Aronian

• Levon Aronian by S. Aronova (Yerevan, 2012)
• Igrati kao Levon Aronjan (2012)
• Levon Aronian: Numer 2 by D. Sobiecki (Warsaw, 2014)
• ‘Aronian’s 111 Attacks’ by G. Oganessian (2014)
• Izbrannyye partii Levona Aroniana by V. Emelin (Moscow, 2014).

Magnus Carlsen

• Wonderboy by S. Agdestein (Alkmaar, 2004) – plus Dutch, German and Italian editions. Reissued: How Magnus Carlsen Became the Youngest Chess Grandmaster in the World (Alkmaar, 2013)
• The Chess Greats of the World: Carlsen by D. Lovas (Kecskemét, 2008)
• Mesteren Magnus Carlsen og sjakkspillet by A. Danielsen (Oslo, 2010)
• Smarte trekk – Magnus Carlsen – verdens beste sjakkspiller by H. Opedal (Oslo, 2011), plus second edition (Oslo, 2013)
  
• Magnus Carlsen 60 partiy lidera sovremennykh shakhmat by A. Mikhalchishin and O. Stetsko (Moscow, 2011), plus Spanish translation (Santa Eulalia de Morcín, 2010), French translation (Les Avirons, 2011), English translation (Zurich, 2012) and German translation (Zurich, 2012).
• Magnus Carlsen by R. Biolek, D. Kaňovský and M. Vokáč (Přerov, 2013)
• Magnus Force by C. Crouch (London, 2013)
• Carlsen’s Assault on the Throne by V. Kotronias and S. Logothetis (Glasgow, 2013)
• Magnus Carlsen Rumbo al título Mundial by Z. Franco Ocampos (Buenos Aires, 2013)
• Magnus Carlsen: Wojownik by D. Sobiecki (Warsaw, 2013)
• Magnus Carlsen Campeón del siglo XXI by M. Illescas et al. (Barcelona, 2013 and 2015)
• Magnus Carlsen ... kam, zog und siegte by D. Kohlmeyer (Eltmann, 2014)
• Carlsen move by move by C. Lakdawala (London, 2014)
• Magnus Carlsen Nappulasta kuninkaaksi by H. Torkkola (Helsinki, 2014)
• Hvordan Magnus Carlsen ble verdensmester by S. Agdestein (Oslo, 2014)
• Magnus by A.G. Sivertsen (Oslo, 2015), plus German edition (Hamburg, 2017)
  
• El secreto de Magnus Carlsen by R. Vázquez, A. Romero, D. Barlov and L. Bernal (Santa Eulalia de Morcín, 2016)
• Endgame Virtuoso Magnus Carlsen by T. Karolyi (Alkmaar, 2018)
• Play Like a World Champion Magnus Carlsen by B. Jordan (‘Amazon Fufillment’, Wrocław, 2019).

Fabiano Caruana

• Fabulous Fabiano by M. Barletta and R. Messa (Brescia, 2014)
• Fabiano Caruana: Gracz by D. Sobiecki (Warsaw, 2015)
• Caruana move by move by C. Lakdawala (London, 2018)
• Fabiano Caruana by A. Kalinin (Alkmaar, 2018).

Boris Gelfand

• Boris Gelfand: 109 victorias 1986/1991 by J.S. Morgado and R. Alvarez (Buenos Aires, 1991)
• Gelfand 222 partidas (Madrid, 1991)
• Boris Gelfand (Elo 2600 series, USA, circa 1992).

Vassily Ivanchuk

• Ivanchuk 222 partidas (Madrid, 1990)
• Vasily Ivanchuk (Elo 2600 series, USA, circa 1992)
• Wassily Iwantschuk by E. Gufeld and N. Kalinitschenko (1994)
• Vassily Ivanchuk (Szolnok, circa 1995)
• Vassily Ivanchuk: Sbornik partii za 1985-2001 (2002)
• Shakhovi novieli Vassilia Ivanchuka by V. Vdovenko and M. Kozak (2002)
• The Chess Greats of the World Ivanchuk by D. Lovas (Kecskemét, 2011)
• Vassily Ivanchuk 100 selected games by N. Kalinichenko (Alkmaar, 2013) + Spanish translation + Russian original
  
• Ivanchuk move by move by J. Tay (London, 2015).

Sergey Karjakin

• Siergiej Karjakin Nadzieja Rosji by D. Sobiecki (Warsaw, 2016)
• Karjakin, Anand, Adams, Domínguez by V.A. Leonov (Nizhny Novgorod, 2017).

Vladimir Kramnik

• Young Lions: Vladimir Kramnik by S.W. Gordon and T. Taylor (Salt Lake City, 1994)
• Führende Schachmeister der Gegenwart Wladimir Kramnik by E. Gufeld and N. Kalinitschenko (Maintal, 1994)
• Vladimir Kramnik (Szolnok, circa 1995)
• Zapiski sekundanta by Yevgeny Bareev and Ilya Levitov (Moscow, 2006)
• The Chess Greats of the World Kramnik by D. Lovas (Kecskemét, 2007)
• Great Chess Combinations Vladimir Kramnik by A. Kalinin (Moscow, 2011)
• Kramnik move by move by C. Lakdawala (London, 2012)
• Vladimir Kramnik by S. Guliev (Moscow, 2015)
• Vladimir Kramnik: The Inside Story of a Chess Genius by C. Hensel (Glasgow, 2018).

Hikaru Nakamura

• Kämpfen und Siegen mit Hikaru Nakamura by K. Müller and R. Stoltze (Zurich, 2012), plus English translation (Zurich, 2012)
  
• The Chess Greats of the World Nakamura by D. Lovas (Kecskemét, 2015)
• Hiraku Nakamura by N. Kalinichenko (Moscow, 2016).

Veselin Topalov

• Topalov versus Top Players by N. Todorov (Sofia, 2001)
• The Chess Greats of the World Topalov by D. Lovas (Kecskemét, 2006)
• 250 shakhmatni pobedi by S. Sergiev (Sofia, 2009)
• Viswanathan Anand vs Veselin Topalov and the Bul[g]arian chess players by S. Sergiev (Sofia, 2010)
• Veselin Topalov. Izbrannye partii ex-chempiona mira po shakhmatam by S. Guliev (Moscow, 2016), plus English translation
• My Magic Years with Topalov by R. Edouard (Landegem, 2019).

Acknowledgements: Calle Erlandsson (Lund, Sweden), David McAlister (Stirling, Scotland), Claus Montonen (Helsinki), Ian Rogers (Carlton, NSW, Australia), Michael Syngros (Amarousion, Greece) and Yakov Zusmanovich (Pleasanton, CA, USA).

Latest update: 17 January 2020.

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