Over the past few years the great chess player Garry Kasparov has written five  best-selling books praising the contributions to chess made by the previous  world champions. The series is called ''My Great Predecessors''. As a reaction to  this wonderful series of books, leading chess writer Tibor Károlyi has written this  imaginary sixth volume. In gently humorous – but chessically serious – style, the  author imagines Kasparov is annotating over 70 of his own lost games, and  blaming all these defeats on the bad influence of each of the previous world  champions, providing in-depth analysis to show how he was misled by them.  The book also serves as a highly instructive, practical chess book – to beat  Kasparov, the greatest player of all time, took some pretty special chess, and  readers will enjoy learning from this. It is astonishing how the author has  managed to find so many games that exhibit uncanny similarities between  Kasparov and his predecessors, which makes the content of the book extremely  plausible – as if Kasparov himself were writing it. This is a brilliant and totally  original chess book that could only have been written by someone with great  knowledge of Kasparov and the past world champions.