Kuzmin Alexey. Together with the Candidates: from Budapest 1950 until Berlin 2018

Thinkers Publishing, 2018. — 385 p. — ISBN: 978-949251035-8.Elite games, Tests, and History
This book is a presentation of the history of all the Candidate's Tournaments and matches. However, it is also a book of tests and solutions, given in the format of game fragments with detailed comments. All the problems selected by Alexey have been taken from the games of all the Candidates competitions.Alexey Kuzmin was born in 1963, in Moscow Russia. He was the champion of the Central Chess Club of the USSR IN 1985 and Moscow in 1986. Having won the round-robin tournament in Managua in 1987, he became an IM and earned his GM title in 1995. Alexey was the winner of several international competitions and soon entered the top 100 of the world rating list. In 2004 he ended his active playing career.Alexey has been working as a professional coach for more than 30 years. He was the second of the 12th World Champion Anatoly Karpov during the years of his struggle against Garry Kasparov (1987-1991). Since 1992 he has been the appraised coach of the Qatar National team. In 2004, Alexey achieved the “FIDE Senior Trainer” title.In the period from 2006 until 2015, he worked as a second of GM Alexander Morozevich, the candidate for the World Champion’s title.This is his second book for ‘Thinkers Publishing’, his first ‘Together with Morozevich’, is regarded as a most remarkable book.