Baumbach/Smith/Knobel: Who is the Champion of the Champions? CT 2 The Exchange Variation

2 The Exchange Variation

but more importantly because it defines the playing style of Magnus Carlsen

youngest number 1 in chess history

on the American's legendary career

a Tatar who grew up as an orphan in the part of the Soviet Union that is now Kazakhstan

Baumbach/Smith/Knobel: Who is the Champion of the Champions? CT 2 The Exchange VariationThe focus of this English language correspondence chess book is the World Champions Tournament, to which the International Correspondence Chess Federation (ICCF) invited all living correspondence chess world champions in 2001. The participants were: Fritz Baumbach, Hans Berliner, Tnu Oim, Vytas Palciauskas, Horst Rittner, Grigori Sanakojew, Jrn Sloth, Gert Timmerman and Michail Umanski. All nine world champions contributed to the success of this book