Engqvist Thomas. - Stein: Move by Move

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About the Author

Thomas Engqvist is an International Master from Sweden. He has over 30 years experience as a chess coach, teacher and writer, and has recently worked with players at world championship level in both junior and correspondence chess.
Engqvist was born in 1963 and started to play chess at the SK33 chess club in the small town of Enkping during the autumn of 1976. He earned the International Master title in 1993 when he was 29 years old, after winning an IM tournament in Titograd (Podgorica) 1991 and coming third in the 1992 and 1993 Swedish Championships. He had the chance to become the 1993 Swedish Champion with a victory in his last-round game, but failed despite obtaining a winning position. His highest FIDE rating of 2440 was achieved in 1994.
Engqvist has been a member of one of the strongest clubs in Sweden, SK Rockaden, since 1995. He has played for the first team for more than twenty years and helped them to win the Swedish Team Championship on several occasions, most recently in the 2013/14 season.
As a chess coach he supported Stefan Winge in gaining second place in the World Correspondence Chess Championship in 2012 (Winge, too, narrowly missed out on the title after failing to convert a clear advantage in the crucial final game). He has been a coach at the Peng Cheng chess club in Shenzhen, in the south east of China, where he aided many players, including Zhu Yi who was runner-up in the 2012 World Under-12 Championship. He is currently coaching the nine-year-old American talent, Kirk Ghazarian.
On a creative level, Engqvist refuted one of the former main lines in the Slav Defence, Winawer Counter-Gambit: 1 d4 d5 2 c4 c6 3 N c3 e5 4 cxd5 cxd5 5 N f3 e4 6 N e5 f6 7 Q a4+ N d7 8 N g4 and now 8 ... K f7!!, as in M.Wiedenkeller-T.Engqvist, Swedish Championship, Gothenburg 1990. Not long afterwards, the game G.Kasparov-P.Nikolic, Manila 1992, went 4 dxe5 d4 5 N e4 Q a5+ 6 B d2 and this became the new main line.
Engqvists official work is as a teacher at a municipal school. He teaches Swedish as a second language and English. His formal education at University was in comparative film, literature, English and pedagogique. In his spare time he is editor-in-chief of the popular Swedish chess site www.schacksnack.se . This is his second book. His first Petrosian: Move by Move made the ECF book of the year shortlist for 2014.

Contents

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Introduction

He who takes risks can lose, he who doesnt however will lose for sure. Savielly Tartakower (1887-1956)
The main motivation behind this book is that a great and naturally talented player like the Ukrainian grandmaster Leonid Zakharovich Stein (1934-1973) deserves more attention in the English-speaking world than the two books which have been written about him so far. The two that exist about Stein were well written and popular but have, unfortunately, been out of print for several years. Those are Leonid Stein: Master of Risk Strategy by the Soviet grandmaster Eduard Gufeld and master Efim Lazarev, and the work by the English grandmaster Raymond Keene, Leonid Stein: Master of Attack . The former is actually an updated version of the book in the famous Black series which sold an unbelievable 75,000 copies. The latter was reprinted as a paperback from the original in 1976.

There are two other books which contain some games and information about Stein, as well as an article The interrupted game of Leonid Stein, co-authored by Adrian Mikhalchishin and Victor Kart, published in New in Chess #2/1995 , which has some concrete information not to be found elsewhere. The books are Garry Kasparov on My Great Predecessors, Part III and Colin Crouchs The Great Attackers: Learn from Kasparov, Tal and Stein . The former concentrates on the most important high-level games of his career, while the latter examines games from his final years, 1972-73.