Canada's eccentric International Master Bryon Nickoloff was a genius at opening preparation and endgame strategy. The main reason he never became a Grandmaster was habitual time trouble with the clock. He was simply addicted to the adrenaline of time scrambles. So this book will be very educational for students of openings and endgames, but a dramatic 'cautionary tale' regarding the time-consuming search for perfection in the middlegame.
"Nickoloff, with an IQ of 180, whizzed through school with no mark below 95. He was one of a select group of students picked for the city's shortlived experiment in advanced independent learning. At 15, he joined a chess club at a local YMCA. 'There were 500 people there and everyone was beating me,' says Nickoloff. 'But six months later, I could beat them all.' He became 'obsessed' with the game and would play six hours a day, study chess books and famous games for another 10 hours. ..."
Dave Stonehouse, Toronto Star, November 13, 1988
"...there is such a thing as chess talent. It manifests as a sort of premature intuition. The player just naturally sees the right moves in complex or bizarre positions, or feels when the turning point in the game is at hand. ... Two Canadians have impressed this columnist as being more talented than the rest. One is Kevin Spraggett of Montreal, who has gone on to become a Grandmaster... The other is Bryon Nickoloff of Toronto ..."
Jonathan Berry, Globe and Mail, June 3, 1989
| Weight | 435 g |
|---|---|
| Manufacturer | Chess'n Math |
| Width | 14 cm |
| Height | 21.5 cm |
| Medium | Book |
| Year of Publication | 2007 |
| Author | Lawrence Day |
| Language | English |
| Edition | 1 |
| ISBN-13 | 9781895525144 |
| Pages | 293 |
| Binding | paperback |
| Name | Chess'n Math Association |
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v Preface IM Lawrence Day
viii Games List
xi Foreword IM Brian Hartman
xii Introduction IM Deen Hergott
001 Part 1 Biographical
001 Major Victories
007 Legacy
007 Style
014 Part 2 The Junior Years
033 Part 3 Tasting IM Blood
034 Toronto Closed 1977
039 Lone Pine
069 Mexico City Student Olympiad
072 Buenos Aires Olympiad 1978
080 Part 4 Return from Mexico
085 Ottawa Zonal
096 Winnipeg Zonal
098 Dubai Olympiad 1986
116 Part 5 International Success
121 Summer of '88
134 Thessaloniki Olympiad 1988
138 Croatia Club International
146 Windsor Zonal
156 Croatia Club 2
158 Novi Sad Olympiad 1990
167 Part 6 Plateau
187 North Bay International Open
202 Moscow Olympiad 1994
229 Toronto Zonal
245 Elista Olympiad 1998
252 Part 7 The Later Years
Part 8 Combo Bombo
277 Section 1 Mate or Material
281 Section 2 Critical Moments
285 Game Continuations
288 Opponents Index
290 Opening Index
291 General Index
GAMES LIST
Part 1 Biographical
1 Day-Nickoloff
2 Nickoloff-Braga
3 Norwood-Nickoloff
Part 2 The Junior Years (1973-1976)
4 Rivals With Futures Nickoloff-K. Spraggett
5 Vancouver Nickoloff-Berry
6 Birth of the Nick System Wachtel-Nickoloff
7 Tabiya Berlinicus Nurmi-Nickoloff
Part 3 Sklamquacking for IM Blood (1977-1981)
8 A Wing Gambit Nickoloff-Vranesic
9 Generation Gap Dake-Nickoloff
10 Toronto Champion Day-Nickoloff
11 The Shweh-Weh Nurmi-Nickoloff
12 Baptism by Fire Nickoloff-Lipnowski
13 Quads: A Brilliant Move! Nickoloff-Berry
14 Theoretical Debate Nickoloff-Vranesic
15 Pterodactyl Alert Nickoloff-Rohland
16 Heroic Defence Nickoloff-K. Spraggett
17 Houdini Tactics Day-Nickoloff
18 Fine Ground Endgame Nickoloff-Pazos
19 Time Scramble Roulette Nickoloff-Robiano
20 Mexico Nickoloff-De Winter
Part 4 Return from Mexico (1982-1988)
21 A Mexican System Day-Nickoloff
22 Canadian Modernism Nickoloff-Hawkes
23 Magical Bamboozlement Findlay-Nickoloff
24 Sampling the Budapest Kitchen Findlay-Nickoloff
25 Playing a Legend Yanofsky-Nickoloff
26 The Man Who Overpressed Milos-Nickoloff
27 Chess as Art Raaste-Nickoloff
28 Even Grandmasters Blunder Wilder-Nickoloff
29 Look Ma, No Tactics! Nickoloff-Witt
30 The Big Tank Nickoloff-Fuster
Part 5 International Success (1988-1994)
31 An English GM Falls Watson-Nickoloff
32 An Odd Gambit Nickoloff-Friedman
33 The Defector Alburt-Nickoloff
34 Beating the US Champion Nickoloff-Benjamin
35 The Benko Nickoloff-Fishbein
36 A Tenacious Kiwi Nickoloff-Dive
37 The Bear Nickoloff-Hebert
38 Taming a Wild Benoni Nickoloff-Hulak
39 A Long Bee Endgame Nickoloff-Hartman
40 Maximal Chaos Piasetski-Nickoloff
41 For the Interzonal Ticket Nickoloff-Piasetski
42 Croatia Club 2 Nickoloff-Lesiège
43 Escaping Japan Watanabe-Nickoloff
44 The Sheik Nickoloff-Harandi
45 What would Capa do? Nickoloff-Dougherty
46 A Monster Bee of a Different Colour Angelov-Nickoloff
47 Chicago Sherzer-Nickoloff
48 Tal Impersonation Nicko!off-D. Ross
49 The Gambit from Catalonia Hergott-Nickoloff
50 A Practical Bishop Endgame Vlaovic-Nickoloff
51 So Close! Shirov-Nickoloff
52 The One That Got Away Nickoloff-K. Spraggett
53 The One That Didn't Get Away Nickoloff-Lesiege
54 The Stonewall Nickoloff-Jooty
Part 6 Plateau (1995-1998)
55 Exchange Sacrifice Nickoloff-Crisan
56 The Reti KID Nickoloff-T. Southam
57 French Experiments Livshits-Nickoloff
58 Gligoric Variation Nickoloff-Livshits
59 A Queenside Breakthrough Nickoloff-Campbell
60 Polugaevsky's Wild Imbroglio E. Teodoro-Nickoloff
61 Zugic Arrives Zugic-Nickoloff
62 A Karpov Variation Nickoloff-Ochkoos
63 A Big Trap Friedman-Nickoloff
64 Fire and Ice Nickoloff-Alarcon
Part 7 The Later Years (1999-2004)
65 The Knight Pair Nickoloff-Safranska
66 The Brantford Zonal Nickoloff-Yoos
67 White to Play and Draw? Lesiège-Nickoloff
68 Clamped Day-Nickoloff
69 Unclamped Day-Nickoloff
70 Tempus Fugit Nickoloff-Teplitsky
71 Islands in the Chaos Stream Nickoloff-Charbonneau
72 Tranquil Chess Nickoloff-Noritsyn
73 Nick's Finale Molchanov-Nickoloff