Aron Nimzowitsch (1886 - 1935) was the most influential chess thinker of
the 20th century. His books 'My System' (1925) and 'Chess Praxis' (1928)
had tremendous impact and continue to be printed, sold and read to this
day. Every chess player who is serious about improving his game, studies
the lessons of this great Russian-born innovator. During several decades
of research German chess historian Rudolf Reinhardt compiled, from an
immense variety of sources, all the games Nimzowitsch played after 1928.
They are presented with notes by Nimzowitsch himself and, in some cases,
by his contemporaries. In addition to the games Reinhardt also collected
the articles and essays that Nimzowitsch wrote during the last seven
years of his life. Reinhardt's collection offers a unique view of the
chess world of the late 1920s and 1930s, its top tournaments and the
state of theory. More importantly, it portrays Nimzowitsch the chess
player and author in the last seven years of his short life. It is all
there: the fights, the competitors and the polemics, all in the
incomparable style of the master: pointed, elegant, precise and highly
original. The book starts where Nimzowitsch's second volume Chess Praxis
ends. Richard Reinhardt, who died unexpectedly when writing the preface
to his monumental collection, did not exaggerate when he called it the
unauthorized sequel to the classics Nimzowitsch himself published during
his lifetime.
