GM Valeri Beim's book CHESS RECIPES FROM THE GRANDMASTER'S KITCHEN shares one example with Hall's book (CHESS TRAINING FOR BUDDING CHAMPIONS) and at least a few more instructional works including that by another Gambit author, Croatian GM Drazen Marovic. It's the classic Botvinnik-Zagoriansky, Sverdlovsk 1943, where the action starts after (1.Nf3 d5 2.c4 e6 3.b3 Nf6 4.Bb2 Be7 5.e3 0-0 6.Nc3 c5 7.cxd5 Nxd5 8.Nxd5 exd5 9.d4 cxd4 10.Qxd4 Bf6 11.Qd2 Nc6 12.Be2 Be6 13.0-0 Bxb2 14.Qxb2 Qa5)

BOTVINNIK SHOWS HOW IT SHOULD BE DONE

Botvinnik won masterfully after (15.Rfd1 Rad8 16.Rd2 Rd7 17.Rad1 Rfd8 18.h3 h6 19.Ne5 Nxe5 20.Qxe5 Qc5 21.Bf3 b6 22.Qb2 Rc8 23.Qe5 Rcd8 24.Rd4 a5 25.g4 Qc6 26.g5 hxg5 27.Qxg5 f6 28.Qg6 Bf7 29.Qg3 f5 30.Qg5 Qe6 31.Kh1 Qe5 32.Rg1 Rf8 33.Qh6 Rb8 34.Rh4 Kf8 35.Qh8+ Bg8 36.Rf4 Rbb7 37.Rg5 Rf7 38.Qh5 Qa1+ 39.Kg2 g6 40.Qxg6 Bh7 41.Qd6+ Rfe7 42.Qd8+ 1-0) and indeed his play is impressive. Tying Black down to d5 and then opening a second front with g4-g5 shows iron logic indeed. But interestingly Beim, Hall, Marovic and even Botvinnik himself all pass over the innocuous looking 18...h6. How would White win if Black didn't so obligingly create this target for White to open lines?

Despite this one caveat GM Beim's book is an interesting and original work. It's not a hefty tome, but the chapters on the technique of analyzing and inverse thinking in chess are worth the price of admission alone. This is not a stand-alone instructional work the way Hall's is, but there is much food for thought for players 2000-2400.

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