Grandmaster Achievement [Grandmaster Preparation]

viii, 223, [1] pp. Revised from the original 1981 English translation entitled Grandmaster Preparation. Polugayevsky describes his personal approach to chess, one which has taken him to the uppermost reaches of the game. Here he highlights the factors which have enabled him to reach the top: opening preparation; adjournment analysis; preparation for decisive encounters. Of particular interest is his account of what has become known as the Polugayevsky Variation, one of the sharpest variations of the Sicilian Defence.