The 1999 World Championship in Las Vegas produced a surprise winner--after a month-long battle, the Russian grandmaster Alexander Khalifman emerged from this grueling knock-out event to become the 14th FIDE World Champion.

Alexander Khalifman has been competing in the higher echelons of the world chess for many years. He is a player with a broad opening repertoire and a distinctive style, one of his favorite 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 Uniquely qualified to describe the career and annotate the best games of the new World Champion.

Specifications:

• Author: Nesis
• Book Type: Paperback, 2000
• Notation: Figurine Notation
• Pages: 176