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(1) Posted by Michael McDowell [Sunday, Jan 10, 2010 21:46]

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In his book with Mark Dvoretsky "Studies for practical players", Oleg Pervakov describes John Nunn as "...the best solver of problems and studies on the planet".

It would be interesting to know the reasoning behind this opinion.
 
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(2) Posted by Sarah Hornecker [Monday, Jan 11, 2010 00:19]

Pervakov doesn't know Murdzia and Evseev? :-)
No, maybe it is because Nunn won the world championship two times and is a strong OTB player who also solves a lot of things that are not in the official tourneys (like retros and construction tasks).

You shouldn't overestimate this but only regard it as a personal opinion of Oleg Pervakov. From what I see, he does lots of writing on chess studies and still composes so he might not be up-to-date on that topic but instead refer to Solving in Style or other sources instead the rating lists.

Well, although it has minor flows, the book is highly recommendable. Maybe the flows come from the translation to German anyway. However, one of the bigger minor flows is the mistranslation of my name I heard about (someone must have translated it from Russian to English without knowing me - Yusupov translated it correctly to German but I think often uses strange transcriptions, probably scientific ones. He's a nice guy, by the way, I met him in January 2009 on Staufer Open. I was that guy who annoyed him with the Dvoretsky autograph and had him sign to Dvoretsky's book. :-)
 
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