A risky style of play involving bold attacks and sacrifices, exemplified well by Adolf Anderssen and just about everybody prior to Morphy.
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Quotes of the Day
When Korchnoi was living in the USSR I called him ‘hero of socialist labour’; when he moved to the West I renamed him ‘hero of capitalist labour’!
Boris Spassky
Drawing general conclusions about your main weaknesses can provide a great stimulus to further growth.
Alexander Kotov
Vugar Gashimov deserves to be immortalized!
Mahir Mamedov 2014
Petrosian-Spassky? To think I could have watched an excellent football match instead!
Mikhail Tal 1966
it would have been a debacle if Karjakin had become the 17th World Champion.
Garry Kasparov 2016