“We perceive after a careful consideration of the evolution of the chess mind that such evolution has gone on, in general, in a way quite similar to that in which it goes on with the individual chess player, only with the latter more rapidly.”Richard RETI
That is, start off trying to play like Morphy, before you try to play like Carlsen.
Chess Championship games:
Chess has got better over the years and the top players today play a very subtle game, which is not easy to explain. So what can we learn from the best player, Magnus Carlsen? The eternal advice to ‘look at every check and every capture, every move’ applies to super-Grandmasters as much as the rest…
Capablanca had a gift for chess that may never be seen again. He was able to play beautiful positional games, spiced with deadly tactics, and all at breathtaking speed, at least in his early years. He could see at a glance what other masters struggled with. I have included a couple of his elegant combinations,…
Alexander Alexandrovitch Alekhin wrestled the crown from Capablanca with and never allowed him a rematch. He did play matches with Bogolyubow and even lost one to Euwe before getting back the worls title. Alekhin’s moves were always trying to get the most out of a position. It wasn’t his style to look for ‘natural’ or…
Kasparov wasn’t just the best chessplayer of his time, he may have been the best of any time. Botvinnik used to say that he was [i]primus inter pares[/i], first among equals, but Kasparov wasn’t like that at all. His rating was a long way ahead of his rivals. And he didn’t like to win a…
I think a natural question is, who has taken part in the most World Championship matches, but sometimes the World Championship event is a tournament… Good question! So here is a table based on a Wikipedia page https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_World_Chess_Championships: (Player names are given with their national affiliation) Date Location Winner Score Runner-up Format Match/Tournament Predecessor events…
