"Gyula Breyer - The Chess Revolutionary" Compiled and edited by Jimmy Adams
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Gyula Breyer (1893-1921) was a highly successful and imaginative chess player. He won the championship of his native country Hungary as a teenager and achieved remarkable results against the leading players of his day.
But first and foremost, Breyer was a revolutionary in his chess thinking. He promoted the idea of dynamic chess and formulated many of the Hypermodern concepts, long before others started their investigations. Yet, after his death, he was omitted from most of the chess history books and today is only known for the Breyer variation, an ever popular defence against the Ruy Lopez.
However, Jimmy Adams has now unlocked Breyer?s legacy from the archives and made it accessible to the chess world at large. This monumental book presents 240 of his games, annotated by Breyer himself and many others. It also features a large number of articles, columns and fragments from newspapers, magazines and books, sparkling with chess and literary wit. The majority appear in English for the first time - and indeed in any language other than Hungarian.
By piecing together this material in chronological order, Jimmy Adams has constructed a mesmerizing biography covering Gyula Breyer?s intense, unconventional and ultimately tragic life. Included as well is a collection of his chess problems, some of which are truly amazing.
FIDE Master Jimmy Adams is a profilic chess author, who has written, translated and compiled a wide range of books on openings, historical tournaments and legendary players. His books include Johannes Zukertort, Artist of the Chessboard and Mikhail Chigorin, The Creative Genius.
007 Introduction
026 Chapter 1 - The Budapest Chess Club
044 Chapter 2 - International debut in Köln
060 Chapter 3 - Down to zero
071 Chapter 4 - Prizewinning performance in Pöstyén 1912
119 Chapter 5 - Breslau 1912: joining ranks with the masters
172 Chapter 6 - Hungarian Champion
198 Chapter 7 - Austro-Hungarian rivalry
223 Chapter 8 - Breyer?s first masterpiece
244 Chapter 9 - Below expectations in Scheveningen
272 Chapter 10 - A gambit tournament
313 Chapter 11 - Unfinished business in Mannheim 1914
344 Chapter 12 - Outbreak of the First World War
351 Chapter 13 - New concepts and a new style
369 Chapter 14 - The Budapest Defence
382 Chapter 15 - Revolutionary articles
412 Chapter 16 - Creative competition in Budapest
427 Chapter 17 - An immortal game
447 Chapter 18 - Breyer reports
452 Chapter 19 - Unique annotations
464 Chapter 20 - Kassa 1918: arrival of the Hypermoderns
484 Chapter 21 - More original ideas
503 Chapter 22 - Aftermath of the War
509 Chapter 23 - Into exile
514 Chapter 24 - Szellemi Sport
529 Chapter 25 - Match defeat against Réti
536 Chapter 26 - A short trip to Vienna
543 Chapter 27 - Lacklustre form in Gothenburg 1920
568 Chapter 28 - Breyer?s greatest tournament victory
613 Chapter 29 - The world blindfold record
640 Chapter 30 - Bécsi Magyar Újság
697 Chapter 31 - ?The most brilliant of all the competitors?
728 Chapter 32 - Writing to the end
755 Chapter 33 - Hungarian tragedy
763 Chapter 34 - The Breyer Variation
775 Chapter 35 - Legend lives on
782 Chapter 36 - How Breyer influenced Réti
793 Chapter 37 - Alekhine and Bogoljubow: the reluctant Hypermoderns
798 Chapter 38 - Amazing compositions
818 Chapter 39 - Obituaries, tributes and commemorations
825 Chapter 40 - Postscript
828 Chapter 41 - The final journey
833 Tournament and match record
834 Tournament tables
855 Index of openings
853 Index of games
857 Index of names
871 Acknowledgements
874 Quoted sources
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