COUNTERATTACK

Repulsing an attack by launching if possible a strongest one on the opponent. Frank Marshall used to say: ‘A man lifts his hand to give a blow and you knock him before he can strike’.

My style is based on giving energy and creating. Karpov’s style is something that is probably taking energy from his opponent. NIC 1989 Garry Kasparov
1989 NIC
” (about Lasker) For me, this personality, notwithstanding his fundamentally optimistic attitude, had a tragic note. The enormous mental resilience, without which no chess player can exist, was so much taken up by chess that he could never free his mind of this game, even when he was occupied by philosophical and humanitarian questions.” Albert Einstein
Kasparov is great as a chess player, but all his attempts to prove himself as an organizer – let’s say, is beyond the champion’s level. Boris Gelfand
2016
He has weaknesses, as everyone does, but far fewer than those around him. Veselin Topalov
2016
Chess…gives students an opportunity to think at a different level. Dr. Chad Witherspoon
2014

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