Author: Ftacnik, Lubomir (1957- ) and Jan Ambroz
Year: 1993
Publisher: Prague Chess Agency
Place: Prague
Condition:
201+[2 ad] pages with tables, diagrams, photographs (some in color) and index. Octavo (8 1/4" x 5 3/4") bound in original publisher's pictorial jacket. First edition.
The only Interzonal in the year 1993, held at Biel was played as an Open, a swiss system with 73 participants playing 13 rounds (including three former or future World Champions: Smyslov, Kramnik, and Anand, as well as Ivanchuk, Salov, Shirov, Gelfand, Bareev, Khalifman, Seirawan, Speelman, Adams, Lautier, Piket or Judit Polgar, veterans Hübner, Portisch, Korchnoi, youngsters Kamsky and Topalov), with ten players to advance to the Candidate's. It turned out to be the last ever Interzonal because of the FIDE schism that same year forced by Short and Kasparov (Garry later admitted, it was a misjudgement), splitting the chess world into two parallel chaotic Candidate Cycles for many years. Gelfand won the Interzonal of 1993 (swiss system) in Biel outright.
Condition:
Light edge wear else a near fine copy.
Year: 1993
Publisher: Prague Chess Agency
Place: Prague
Condition:
201+[2 ad] pages with tables, diagrams, photographs (some in color) and index. Octavo (8 1/4" x 5 3/4") bound in original publisher's pictorial jacket. First edition.
The only Interzonal in the year 1993, held at Biel was played as an Open, a swiss system with 73 participants playing 13 rounds (including three former or future World Champions: Smyslov, Kramnik, and Anand, as well as Ivanchuk, Salov, Shirov, Gelfand, Bareev, Khalifman, Seirawan, Speelman, Adams, Lautier, Piket or Judit Polgar, veterans Hübner, Portisch, Korchnoi, youngsters Kamsky and Topalov), with ten players to advance to the Candidate's. It turned out to be the last ever Interzonal because of the FIDE schism that same year forced by Short and Kasparov (Garry later admitted, it was a misjudgement), splitting the chess world into two parallel chaotic Candidate Cycles for many years. Gelfand won the Interzonal of 1993 (swiss system) in Biel outright.
Condition:
Light edge wear else a near fine copy.