num_pages: 392
description: J.H.Donner (1927 - 1988) was a Dutch Grandmaster and one of the greatest writers about chess of all time. He was a chess reporter and a chess columnist as well as an annotator of the game but above all he was a witty and unpredictable commentator of everything and everybody both inside and outside the chess world. Donner's favourite themes Bobby Fischer the blunder chess as a game of luck why women can't play chess madness and poor Lodewijk Prins his rival for the Dutch National Championship for many years who according to Donner couldn't tell a bishop from a knight. A book full of insults and ironies but Donner wouldn't be Donner without a considerable amount of self-mockery.
language: English
title: The King: Chess Pieces
publisher: New In Chess