Lighter Side of Chess

• Utgivningsdatum: 2026-03-12
• Mått: 170 x 234 x 25 mm
• Vikt: 680 g
• Format: Inbunden
• Språk: Engelska
• Antal sidor: 288
• Förlag: Thinkers Publishing
• ISBN: 9789493435124

• Schack
• Humor och presentböcker

Georg Mohr was born in Maribor, Slovenia in 1965 becoming a Grandmaster in 1997. He joined as a member of the FIDE Trainers Commission from 2002, becoming a FIDE Senior Trainer in 2004 and a FIDE International Organizer in 2011. Georg has been a professional chess trainer for many years. He was coach and captain of Slovenian national team from 2003–2010 and since 2011 he has been Turkish national youth trainer. He is a chess writer and was editor of Slovenian chess magazine Šahovska Misel from 1999 and editor of FIDE Trainers Commission trainers’ surveys. He is also an organiser of chess events acting as tournament director of the European Club Cup (Rogaška Slatina 2011), the World Youth Championship (Maribor 2012) and the World Senior Championship (Bled 2018). This is his fourth book for Thinkers Publishing.Adrian Bohdanovych Mikhalchishin was born in Lvov, Ukraine in 1954 and became a Grandmaster in 1978. In 1995 he took Slovenian citizenship and became a FIDE Senior Trainer from 2002 and was chairman of FIDE Trainers Commission from 2009. Adrian was a trainer of many famous chess players. Amongst others he was in Anatoly Karpov’s team during matches with Garry Kasparov. He has worked with Maja Chiburdanidze, Nana Aleksandria, the Polgar sisters, Alisa Maric and Nana Dzagnidze. He was coach and captain of the national teams of Slovenia and the Netherlands. In recent years he has been coach of the Turkish woman team. He has written many chess books and thousands of articles for many chess magazines.

The Lighter Side of Chess: Games, Goofs and Funny Facts by Grandmasters Adrian Mikhalchisin and Georg Mohr is the rare chess book whose pages can be read in any order while lying on one’s couch. As the title implies this is a book to be enjoyed but it is much more. After reading this volume one cannot help but realize that at the chessboard anything is possible. The number of blunders presented in this book, by the best of the best, will give hope to even the lowliest club player. Time pressure explains some of the howlers but others defy a logical answer. Mikhalchisin and Mohr, who have a deep knowledge of Soviet and Eastern European chess, have provided many examples of individual and mutual mass hallucinations that will leave one scratching their head. There is an entire chapter devoted to draws which is filled with dozens of humorous incidents, several involving Sammy Reshevsky who is one of the all-time greats but never a model for good sportsmanship. While enjoyment may be the primary focus there is plenty of instructive material with numerous examples of ingenious stalemates saving the day, artistic yet practical studies—IM John Donaldson, Chess Newsletter, Mechanics' Institute, April 2026

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