The Story Of A Chess Player

Winner of the World Open in 2003, The New York Open in 1994, and the European Junior Championship in 1983, among many other championship titles, Estonian-born Grandmaster Jaan Ehlvest shares his unique insights into what it takes to become one of the top chess players in the world. Written in an accessible, easy-to-read manner, this book should be of interest to both nwecomers to the game as well as seasoned chess players. It covers both personal stories with various characters in chess history as well as detailed annotations to some of Grandmasters Ehlvest's most memorable and outstanding games.

I first met Jaan Ehlvest at a training camp in the Soviet Union many years ago. Back then I was just a young boy learning chess and Jaan was a chess legend for me. We finally met again in the US when hiking in the American mountains, and it was only then that I really got to know him in depth. Now everybody has a unique opportunity to meet him through his first autobiographical book in English.
(Alex Shabalov, US Chess Champion of 2004).

One of the last keepers of the magic of the Soviet Chess School, Grandmaster Jaan Ehlvest reveals for the first time his inside look on chess, life and beyond. In my opinion, chess should be taught at an early stage in one's childhood and should be part of every educational curriculum, since chess was the best training in character and focus I have ever had.
(Carmen Kass, supermodel, President of the Estonian Chess Federation).

If we look at the individual options that young people had growing up in Eastern Europe, it is true that we did not have many choices - a lot of talented people were lost. But at the same time, our generation had the chance to live in a tumultuos time, during which occured the Soviet occupation, the national awakening, the non-violent resistance, and finally Estonia's first steps as a liberated nation. In our country, we were the generation who initiated these changes and brought them about.
(Tonis Lukas, classmate and former Minister of Education, when asked if Jaan Ehlvest and his contemporaries were part of a ''lost generation'' in the Soviet Union.

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