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| Tarrasch is associated by Hans Kmoch as the 'Scientific Style' |
| Tarrach took some of the Steinitzian principles in a different direction - for example emphasising the importance of piece mobility and control of space as being more important quite often than structural weaknesses. A concrete opening example of this is the Tarrasch defence in the Queens Gambit where black often accepts an Isolated Queens pawn. Tarrasch noted that an IQP can often provide knight outpost support on advanced squares which often outweighed the apparent structural weakness. He preferred not to have cramped positions, and enjoyed using central superiority to attack on both sides of the board. He popularised Steinitz's findings and reduced them to easy to use rules and formulations such as 'Develop knights before bishops' and 'Dont move a piece too many times in the opening'. |
| The revolt against Tarrasch and pushing the boundaries of 'rule-based chess' - The Hypermodern Revolution. The emphasis was now to find and emphasise useful exceptions - not rules. |
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| The impact of Nimozvich and 'My System' |
| Nimzovich is associated by Hans Kmoch with the hillarious annotation in the overprotection Immortal (see #35 video): 'But it is a generally known fact that originality and modernism were introduced by me as my own personal inventions and enthusiastically immitated (without being fully understood) by the whole world of chess!' |
| Key Nimzovich terminology introduced into the game included: Blockade, Undermining, Overprotection, Restrain-Blockade-Destroy, Rook on the 7th, Prophylaxis. It should be noted that some of these ideas seem to be reflections of an ancient chinese book called 'The Art of War'. Also some ideas seem to echo previous generations such as Staunton's experimental use of overprotection, and fianchettoing bishops. |
| Nimzovich's works influenced numerous other players, including Savielly Tartakower, Milan Vidmar, Richard Reti, Akiba Rubinstein, Bent Larsen, and Tigran Petrosian, and his influence is still felt today. |
| Saemich vs Nimzovich |
| Mattison vs Nimzovich |
| Johner vs Nimzovich - restrain, blockade, attack! |
| Evolution of Style #35 Overprotection Immortal! |
| Evolution of Style #36 Overprotection revisited - and a view of generalisations as a prelude to exception finding |
| Evolution of Style #37 - Pieces instead of Pawns |
| Evolution of Style #38 - Nimzovich vs Euwe, Karlsbad 1929 |
| Evolution of Style #39 - Nimzo's game vs Mattison |
| Evolution of Style #40 - Nimzo's draw vs Capablanca |
| Evolution of Style #41 - Nimzo's win vs Menchik |
| Evolution of Style #42 - Nimzo's win vs Bogo |
| Evolution of Style #43 - Nimzo's win vs Saemich |
| Evolution of Style #44 - Game vs Yates, Carlsbad 1929 |
| Evolution of Style #45: A note about Indian systems |
| Evolution of Style #46: Nimzo's game vs Tartakower |
| Evolution of Style #47: Nimzo's win against Vidmar |
| Evolution of Style #48: Nimzo's win against Gilg |
| Evolution of Style #49: Nimzo's win against Johner |
| Evolution of Style #50: Impact of Nimzo's 'My System' |
| Evolution of Style #51: Nimzo's win vs Spielmann |
| Evolution of Style #52: Nimzo's win vs Alekhine Part 1 of 2 |
| Evolution of Style #53: Nimzo's win vs Alekhine Part 2 of 2 |
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| Euwe - 5th official world champion |
| Euwe massively popularised chess in the Netherlands. He was noted for his logical approach and for his knowledge of the openings, in which he made major contributions to chess theory. Euwe had a very strong and objective influence when assigned as FIDE president from 1970. Even when such objectivity brought him into conflict with the Soviet Chess Federation. |
| Evolution of Style #102:The rise of Max Euwe - Zurich 1934 vs Alekhine |
| Evolution of Style #103:How Emanuel Lasker avoided calcification of his own style |
| Evolution of Style #104:Max Euwe games - 1928 Olympiad Amateur World Ch. |
| Evolution of Style #104.2:Max Euwe's style with the black pieces in 1928 |
| Evolution of Style #105:Albert Becker vs Max Euwe - e-file counterattack! |
| Evolution of Style #106:Albert Becker vs Max Euwe - Karlsbad 1929 - Hack attack! |
| Evolution of Style #107:Alexander Alekhine vs Max Euwe - Slav Defence (D17) |
| Evolution of Style #108:Alexander Alekhine vs Max Euwe 1935 - Games 2,3,4 |
| Evolution of Style #109:Alekhine vs Euwe World Ch. 1935 - Games 7,8,9,10 |
| Evolution of Style #110:Alekhine vs Euwe 1935 - Games 12,14,16,19 |
Sultan Khan- one of the most naturally talented players ever!
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| Evolution of Style #111:Sulthan Khan vs Frederic Yates - British ch 1932 |
| Evolution of Style #112:Mir Sulthan Khan vs Akiba Rubinstein |
| Evolution of Style #113:Sulthan Khan vs Solomon Flohr - 1931 - Kings Indian |
| Evolution of Style #114:Alekhine vs Sulthan Khan - Olympiad 1931 |
| Evolution of Style #115:Sulthan Khan vs Matisons - Prague Olympiad 1931 |
| Evolution of Style #116:Mir Sulthan Khan vs Frank Marshall - 1930 |
| Evolution of Style #117:Mir Sulthan Khan vs Capablanca |
| Evolution of Style #118:Carl Ahues vs Mir Sultan Khan - Nimzo-Indian |
| Evolution of Style #119:Mir Sulthan Khan vs Nimzovich - Queens Indian |
| Evolution of Style #120:Statistical Assessments of Players |
| Evolution of Style #121:Appreciating the style and wit of Tartakower! |
| Evolution of Style #122:More Tartakower notable games |
| Evolution of Style #123:Alekhine vs Euwe Rematch 1937 Games 1,2,5,6,7,8 |
| Evolution of Style #124:Alekhine vs Euwe Rematch 1937 - Games 10,13,14 |
| Evolution of Style #125:Alekhine vs Euwe Rematch 1937 |
| Evolution of Style #126:Alexander Alekhine at 1938 Buenos Aires Olympiad |
| Evolution of Style #127:Nottingham 1936 - Round 1 key games |
| Evolution of Style #128:Nottingham 1936 - Round 2 key games |
| Evolution of Style #129:Nottingham 1936 Round 3 key games |
| Evolution of Style #130:Nottingham 1936 - Round 4 key games |
| Evolution of Style #131: Nottingham 1936 - Round 5 key games |
| Evolution of Style #132: Nottingham 1936 Round 6 key games |
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| The Internet, Computer and Entertainment age of style! |
| The Internet has spawned a new way of playing chess with thousands of enthusiasts playing online. Excellent sites like www.chessworld.net have emerged. Innovations spread very quickly due to the game scores each week being collated by news sites like TWIC. |
| For OTB chess research, Computers have enable players to find amazing new resources and ideas in the openings, and make game preparation much more detailed than before. Post-mortem analysis with engines can help find the slightest tactical inaccuracies. |
| Chess is more about finding the truth in positions - and an 'It all depends' attitude to positions - where anything goes if it works. But the Schools of chess lay a positional and intuitive foundation for the game. We stand on the heads and shoulders of previous generations of ideologies. The evolution of style is a path of generalisation and later finding useful exceptions. And with computers, the truth and greater resources of the game are only just starting to be revealed. |
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| And let's not forget who's really important - Kingscrusher - pioneering with Chessworld and the youtube channel at https://www.youtube.com/kingscrusher with lots of entertaining live commentary games, opening videos, news report videos, etc. A new style of chess - for entertainment is a throwback to the Romantic era of chess, when combinations and speculative sacrifices pleased the crowd. But now, it is just online, so it's a bigger crowd than the old cafes of the past such as 'the Cafe de La Reagance' :) |
Chessworld.net founded in 2000 is an online chess site.
Vasily
Vasilievich Smyslov
Mikhail
Nekhemievich Tal
Tigran
Vartanovich Petrosian
Boris
Vasilievich Spassky