Illescas Miguel. Magnus Carlsen: World Champion

Barcelona, Spain: Chess Education and Technology, 2015. — 448p.This book reviews with great detail Magnus Carlsen's career, from his early chess years to his World Champion title in late 2013. It includes his hundred best games fully annotated. GM Miguel Illescas has edited this work, in which he offers his personal view of every game, and analyses deeply many of them, together with other experimented authors. But the most notable feature of this book is that it includes remarks of Magnus himself, made on the press conferences after the games, allowing us to penetrate in the chess thinking of the new World Champion. In addition to the explanatory texts and annotated games, the book includes many photographs, as well as several exclusive interviews with Carlsen. To top off the book, the ten games of the match for the world title are included, four of them extensively annotated. In short, this is certainly the most complete work on Magnus Carlsen.