Gyula Breyer: The Chess Revolutionary

About the AuthorFIDE Master Jimmy Adams is a prolific chess author, who has written, translated and compiled a wide range of books on openings, historical tournaments and legendary players. His books include ‘Johannes Zukertort, Artist of the Chessboard’ and ‘Mikhail Chigorin, The Creative Genius’.

FIDE Master Jimmy Adams is a prolific chess author, who has written, translated and compiled a wide range of books on openings, historical tournaments and legendary players. His books include ‘Johannes Zukertort, Artist of the Chessboard’ and ‘Mikhail Chigorin, The Creative Genius’.

He won the championship of his native country Hungary as a teenager and achieved remarkable results against the leading players of his day. Today he is only known for the Breyer variation, an ever popular defence against the Ruy Lopez.Jimmy Adams has unlocked Breyer’s legacy from the archives and made it accessible to the chess world at large, with translations from Hungarian into English. Also included is a collection of his chess problems, some of which are truly amazing.. He promoted the idea of dynamic chess and formulated many of the Hypermodern concepts, long before others started their investigations. But first and foremost, Breyer was a revolutionary in his chess thinking. The majority appear in English for the first time – and indeed in any language other than Hungarian.By piecing together this material in chronological order, Jimmy Adams has constructed a mesmerizing biography, covering Gyula Breyer’s intense, unconventional and ultimately tragic life. Although his career lasted barely ten years, Gyula Breyer (1893-1921) was a highly successful and imaginative chess player. After his death, however, he was omitted from most of the chess history books, or relegated to a one line reference. This monumental book presents 242 of his games, annotated by Breyer him