Naiditsch/Balogh: Most Interesting Draws of 2012-2015 Damen Gambit Players who try to calculate

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Naiditsch/Balogh: Most Interesting Draws of 2012-2015 Damen Gambit Players who try to calculateArkadij Naiditsch and Csaba Balogh analyze the 50 most interesting draws from the years 2012 2015. Draw has a very bad reputation in chess and indeed it can be really boring sometimes. However, there are also plenty of fighting games as well, where both players are trying their best in order to win the game, but it finally ends in a draw. This kind of extremely tense battles is exactly what the book is about. Contents Key to symbols Introduction