After Magnus

This After Magnus is a chess book by Anish Giri about the players who may one day challenge Magnus Carlsen’s dominance. It combines annotated games with an insider’s view of leading contemporary players, making it a useful read for anyone who follows top-level chess.

Giri starts from the long period in which Carlsen sat firmly at the top of the game and asks who, if anyone, could emerge as the next clear challenger. He sets the present moment against earlier eras, when future world champions such as Bobby Fischer, Garry Kasparov and Carlsen himself seemed obvious from the start. Today, that successor is much harder to identify.

What the book covers

The book presents ten chess players who could, in time, threaten Carlsen’s position at the summit. Each name opens the door to a closer look at style, strengths and potential, while also giving the reader something practical to take away. Giri does more than offer short biographical notes: he guides you through the games and his own commentary in a clear, lively style.

That makes After Magnus relevant not only to fans who follow the world’s elite, but also to players who want to study and improve. The annotations help draw out ideas from the opening, middlegame and endgame, so the book can also work as training material for ambitious club and tournament players.

Author and edition

Anish Giri is an active top-level grandmaster, and he writes from the perspective of both rival and colleague. That gives the book a direct, informed voice throughout.

Key details

• Product type: chess book
• Author: Anish Giri
• Content: annotated games and commentary
• Publisher: New in Chess
• Binding: paperback
• Publication date: 1 January 2015
• Pages: 88
• Weight: 140 g