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"J. H. Donner (1927-1988) was a Dutch Grandmaster and one of the greatest writers about chess of all time. He was a chess reporter and a chess columnist, as well as an annotator of the game. Above all he was a witty and unpredictable commentator of everything and everybody, both inside and outs...

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Main Author: Donner, J. H., 1927-1988.
Contributors: Krabbé, Tim., Pam, Max., Weger, Richard de.
Format: Book
Language:English
Dutch
Published: Alkmaar : New in Chess, 2006.
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Table of Contents:
  • On the justice of chess
  • The limitations of great ideas
  • Petrosian's blunder
  • Talent
  • Mythology
  • Fun and seriousness
  • The prophet from Muggensturm
  • Pacing up and down
  • Mein system
  • Tears
  • Chess is only chess
  • A talent's childhood diseases
  • Prelogical chess
  • Brazen newcomer
  • Drawing master
  • 'Rather not'
  • Blitz
  • Typically nunrowitsch
  • The passed pawn has a soul, desires and fears
  • Blindfold chess
  • Bobby and I
  • In storm and rain
  • This will not happen to me again
  • A crime against chess
  • Chess cannot be compared with anything else
  • Incorrect
  • What makes you not make a move?
  • Teleprinter chess
  • Are bystanders allowed to think?
  • Ivkov's tragedy.
  • Prins's chess
  • Prins ahead
  • A long left to the face
  • UGH
  • Champion Prins
  • It is still a disgrace, he doesn't have a clue
  • Peereboom cannot play chess either
  • Prins refuses challenge
  • Chess animal
  • Chess is and will always be a game of chance
  • Palma de Mallorca
  • Amateurism
  • Women and chess
  • Old chess player
  • Chess and bridge
  • Draw conspiracy
  • Drawing of lots
  • Chess in Cuba
  • Gobstopper
  • On fame
  • Shame
  • Multatuli and Lodewijk Prins
  • Sweet little thing
  • Shadow champion
  • I'll win, of course
  • The Prins variation
  • So I lost
  • Ignore him, gentlemen!
  • Does Canada exist?
  • Johannes Donner
  • Small world
  • Poker ideology
  • Merkx
  • Cameras.
  • A chess player's hell
  • Seautoscopic vision
  • Women cannot play chess
  • Manic chess against depressive chess
  • Perpetual check in deep anxiety
  • The abyss between the sexes
  • The bishop jumps, the knight goes
  • Journalism
  • Fist
  • The fable of the sperm
  • Donner reads from the classics
  • Symposion
  • I urge Jan Hendrik Timman to observe strict discipline
  • Bad habits
  • Let Fischer have his way
  • Northeast Polder
  • Plenary session
  • Fischer's limit
  • Bobby Fischer is insane
  • Sniffing-tactile perception
  • Pachman
  • Such feeble, such cowardly chess
  • Young patricides
  • Idle passion
  • Letter
  • Amateur and master
  • Pitch
  • Intuition
  • For the last time : Fischer.
  • Exceptio Chapaisiana
  • Giants
  • Simul
  • Salvation Army dislodges chess players
  • Game
  • A serious setback
  • The warm nest of a tribalist past
  • Wollt ihr das totale schach!?
  • Fifty
  • Birthday present
  • Age
  • Tragedy
  • Distracting an opponent
  • Arbiters
  • To Argentina with a guilty conscience
  • Foul play
  • Panic
  • Kortchnoi adjourns in winning position
  • Kortchnoi misses win in time-trouble
  • Kortchnoi goes on until stalemate
  • Limit
  • Never have I been so mistaken
  • Auxiliary arbiter
  • Gurus
  • Journalism
  • Karpov deserves world title
  • The power of sports
  • Responsible
  • A politically sinister affair
  • Dear Viktor
  • Two books
  • Boycott I
  • Boycott II
  • Addiction.
  • Secret match
  • Swan song
  • Timman-Velimirovic I
  • Timman-Velimirovic II
  • Timman-Velimirovic III
  • Timman-Velimirovic IV
  • Timman-Velimirovic V
  • What a fiasco! What a success!
  • Aggression
  • Chess film
  • Execration
  • Hubner's aversion to stupidity
  • Publicity
  • A hole in the board
  • Computer
  • Olafsson's neck
  • Computer II
  • Are chess players insane?
  • Seconds
  • Per line
  • Euwe : a rich, full life
  • Television
  • Travelling with Euwe
  • Touch of flu
  • Belle
  • Recurrence
  • Moonlighters
  • In support of himself
  • Her hair
  • Ich muss nach Holland bellen
  • A president for zone 12
  • State of health
  • Chess work
  • Johannesburg
  • Brain haemorrhage.