The History, Theory and Practice of the Classic Bishop Sacrifice
by Jonathan Edwards 400 pp. (Russell Enterpises 2011)
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This book chronicles the history of what many have come to call the Classic Bishop sacrifice, the bishop sacrifice on h7, from its discovery and formative years through its remarkably complex uses in modern chess. Here you will find hundreds of carefully annotated games. Learn from brilliant moves and strategies; and take full advantage of others instructive mistakes.
Jon Edwards won the 10th United States Correspondence Championship in 1997 and the 8th North American Invitational Correspondence Chess Championship in 1999. He became a Senior International Master (SIM) in 1999. His ICCF rating of 2580 placed him in the top 200 correspondence chess players worldwide.
