«Learn from the Legends», 2.ª edición, de Mihail Marin (tapa blanda)

Learn from the Legends, 2nd edition by Mihail Marin is an English-language chess book that shows how to study the games and styles of the great masters in a practical way. Rather than offering a simple game collection, it focuses on the ideas behind legendary play and how those ideas can help you understand your own games more clearly.

This book is aimed at players who want to strengthen their strategic understanding through game analysis and structured study. Marin guides the reader through chess history by concentrating on specific skills and themes associated with famous champions, making the material useful both for reading straight through and for returning to particular topics during training.

What the book covers

The chapters look at the most important features of several legendary players’ games, including:

• Rubinstein’s rook endgame technique,
• Alekhine’s play with heavy pieces,
• Botvinnik’s deep positional analysis,
• Tal’s handling of the relationship between heavy and minor pieces,
• Petrosian’s positional exchange sacrifices,
• Fischer’s strength with the bishop on the king’s side,
• Karpov’s play in opposite-coloured bishop endings,
• Korchnoi’s independent and fighting approach.

That structure makes the book easy to use as a full read or as a training resource you can revisit whenever you want to work on a specific aspect of your game.

Author and edition

• Author: Mihail Marin
• Edition: 2nd edition
• Binding: softcover
• Language: English
• Pages: 336
• Publication date: 31 March 2006
• ISBN: 91-975243-2-8

Recognition

The book was named ChessCafe.com Book of the Year 2005 and was also nominated for British Chess Federation Book of the Year 2005. Jeremy Silman described it as “the best chess book in the last two decades”, and GM Matthieu Cornette called it “My favourite book in 2005”.

Key details

• Product type: chess book
• Title: Learn from the Legends, 2nd edition
• Author: Mihail Marin
• Binding: softcover
• Language: English
• Pages: 336
• Publication date: 31 March 2006
• ISBN: 91-975243-2-8