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A school of thought, a style of play developed in the 1920s, as a reaction to the established and dogmatic Steinitz/Tarrasch teachings. The leaders of this school were Aaron Nimzowitsch and Richard Reti, ably seconded by Xavier Tartakower, Gruenfeld and Breyer. The heroes of this movement were Richard Réti and Aaron Nimzowitsch, Xavier Tartakover of whom of controlling expounded the idea the center from the flanks by using the fianchetto as the principal element. See the Gruenfeld Defence, the Nimzo-Indian Defence.

In the past twenty years Kramnik has played a few thousand games, and if you show me a position from one of them, in 90 percent of the time I will be able to tell you which game it is from. Vishy Anand
2008
Chess can be described as the movement of pieces eating one another. Marcel Duchamp
Kasparov doesn’t care about chess, but only about himself and his political goals Kirsan Ilyumzhinov
2015
I still think people can learn at any age – I’m actually sure about that. It’s just that the ceiling is lower for how far you want to go. Magnus Carlsen
2016
” The fact that a player is very short of time is, to my mind, as little to be considered an excuse as, for instance, the statement of the law-breaker that he was drunk at the time he committed the crime.” Alexander Alekhine

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