One of the best ways to improve is to study the games of a top Grandmaster, and Ivan Sokolov's uncompromising style and tactical flair make him a perfect role model. In this book, Sokolov demonstrates the deadly effectiveness of his systems against openings such as the Nimzo-Indian, Queen's Gambit, Slav and King's Indian. The book contains 50 deeply annotated games with introductions and includes many spectacular miniatures of under-30 moves. The brilliant and inventive opening play will both instruct and entertain. Ivan Sokolov is one of the most outstanding talents to emerge in the 1990s, and many of his victims in this book - Anand, Adams, Topalov and Lautier - hail from the cream of the younger generation. As a key member of the Bosnia-Herzegovina Olympiad team he won a silver medal in Moscow 1994, and was ranked 12th equal in the world in December 1996. Sokolov is resident in the Netherlands, and tied for first with Jan Timman in the 1996 Dutch Championship.
