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unpublished gems and includes thematic sections on opening tactics and defensive ideas

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Karolyi/Aplin: Genius in the Background Klassiker unpublished gems and includes thematicGenius in the Background introduces brilliant chess that will be unfamiliar to even well read chess players. Twelve chess stars are profiled with examples of their greatest achievements, but these stars are not famous they are geniuses who stay in the background. For example, Pervakov and Afek are not household names but they compose chess studies and puzzles of such elegance and cleverness that they deserve to be famous. Top players such as Garry