![kasparov chess style kasparov chess style](https://th-thumbnailer.cdn-si-edu.com/S4eQgKq5vGzH8a-J6urzA6cXMb0=/1000x750/filters:no_upscale():focal(484x137:485x138)/https://tf-cmsv2-smithsonianmag-media.s3.amazonaws.com/filer/3a/39/3a39f700-4961-402f-a191-8bdfb289f059/kasparov-gambit-main.jpg)
This is a brilliant and totally original chess book that could only have been written by someone with great knowledge of Kasparov and the past world champions. The human plus machine style of play is called Freestyle (often played online) and the rules of the game allow chess players to consult outside sources - books, other humans and most importantly computerized chess engines that are stocked with the moves and results of thousands or millions of chess games that have been played through the years.
![kasparov chess style kasparov chess style](https://thechessworld.com/store/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/Mastering-the-middlegame.png)
![kasparov chess style kasparov chess style](https://vz.cnwimg.com/thumb-1200x/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/GettyImages-609124887.jpg)
It is astonishing how the author has managed to find so many games that exhibit uncanny similarities between Kasparov and his predecessors, which makes the content of the book extremely plausible – as if Kasparov himself were writing it. The book also serves as a highly instructive, practical chess book – to beat Kasparov, the greatest player of all time, took some pretty special chess, and readers will enjoy learning from this. In gently humorous – but chessically serious – style, the author imagines Kasparov is annotating over 70 of his own lost games, and blaming all these defeats on the bad influence of each of the previous world champions, providing in-depth analysis to show how he was misled by them. Russian chess legend Garry Kasparov was beaten by a supercomputer - but when it comes to artificial intelligence, he is firmly convinced that its the humans who pose the real threat. As a reaction to this wonderful series of books, leading chess writer Tibor Károlyi has written this imaginary sixth volume. The series is called ”My Great Predecessors”. Over the past few years the great chess player Garry Kasparov has written five best-selling books praising the contributions to chess made by the previous world champions.