Рождение варианта

In this book, one of the strongest grandmasters in the world reveals the methods of his work at various moments of a chess game: while preparing for a meeting with a specific opponent, in the process of analyzing adjourned positions. In the same book, the author tells the story of the origin of one of the formations in the Sicilian Defence, named after the author "Polugaevsky Variation". On the whole, the work reveals the grandmaster's laboratory. The book that you, dear reader, are now opening is of a different kind than memoirs. This is not a ceremonial performance by a grandmaster, this is an invitation to enter the office of one of the strongest chess players in the world. There is not always exemplary order. There, on the table, there is a file cabinet, sheets of notes, there is preparation for the most ordinary, ordinary game. And now the author, the owner of the office, offers to sit next to him during the preparation.