Velasco, Kingston - The Life and Games of Carlos Torre (Hardcover)

The Life and Games of Carlos Torre – 2nd revised and extended edition by Gabriel Velasco & Taylor Kingston. Edition Hardcover (couverture rigide).

Here is what has been added to this edition:

•     More accurate and extensive annotations using ChessBase and Stockfish 14.
•     Torre’s own annotations to several games have been unearthed and added.
•     Added games to give a more rounded view of Torre. Also the six games between players other than Torre that he annotated for the Mexican Championship tournament book.
•     Many more diagrams and photographs. Also more thumbnail bios of Torre’s opponents.
•     More ancillary material about Torre’s life and career: newspaper articles, pictures, anecdotes, interesting facts, opinions, trivia etc.
•     A 1927 interview with Torre, published in the Yucatán magazine Anahuac.
•     Excerpts from 64 Variaciones Sobre un Tema de Torre by Germán de la Cruz.
•     Columns and articles from newspapers in Torre’s home town of Mérida.
•     “A Clash of Opposites,” comparing and contrasting Torre with the notorious Norman Tweed Whitaker.
•     The full text of Torre’s 1926 booklet Development of Chess Ability.
•     A review of Torre x Torre, a fascinating documentary film.
•     A more extensive, more fully informed overall assessment of Torre as a player.