In the history of modern chess there are few who can say that they overwhelmed their opponents in such a way that they sowed terror and fear in the eyes of other modern grandmasters, but this is the case of Alexei Shirov, who demonstrates with his book Fire on the Board, that romantic chess did not die with Mikhail Tal.

The now Spanish grandmaster Shirov, takes us to a fantasy world where the pieces are only a means to an end, in this case the end is the goal of checkmate and in many of his best … Read more