continuing :
Proving the correctness of a such greedy move is very important,
since not all greedy moves lead to globally optimum chess position.
However, the approach of greedy type chess players is not always
the correct approach to solve a given chess position, for example, taking the
opponent's piece of largest count value at next move. Infact, dynamic type chess
players arrive at much more optimal and justifiable set of moves for that position.
6) Transform and conquer type
Sometimes it is very hard or not so apparent as to how to arrive at the next move
for a particular problem. These type of chess players, transform the chess position
into something that they recognize, and then think in terms of that position to arrive
at the next move.
7) Backtracking type
Backtracking type chess players are very similar to brute force type chess players.
But the difference between them is that, brute force chess players, we are
generating every possible combination of next move and predicting if it can result
in better chess position. Whereas, backtracking type chess players, each time they
generate a solution, they are also observing if it satisfies all condition, and only then
they continue thinking subsequent moves, else they will backtrack and go on a
different path of finding the correct next move.
The difference can best be understood by comparing their approach to N Queens
problem. The advantage of backtracking type chess players approach over brute
force type chess players is that the numbers of positions they have to analyze are
very less compared to number of positions to be analyzed by brute force approach.
The backtracking type chess players can isolate valid chess positions quickly.
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Positional
Postional players are more versatile in their opening choices and simply rely on
their general chess understanding to find the right solution in all positions.
The difference between a "positional" player and a "technical" player is almost
psychological, as the positional player's simply don't go out of their way to avoid
unfamiliar positions, or positions in which they are being attacked. Despite all this,
positional players may be easier to face if you have a tactical nature, as it's usually
a bit easier to steer the game towards your style.
Logical
Logical player's seem to try very hard to try to understand the position they
are playing from a logical perspective. They are pretty solid at all phases of the
game but usually not spectacular at any. They are good at adapting to unfamiliar
position's and approaching them with a fresh mind as they have no preconceptions
of what type's of positions they would like to play, and instead try to find the
objective best move. These players won't often try anything too unorthodox,
however they also won't shy away from complications if they are necessary.
Attacking
Attacking players feel comfortable with the initiative. They want to be always
attacking the opponent, and depending on whether they are, their strength may
vary by quite a bit. Some attackers don't even have to be great calculators,
but instead just have a natural understanding of how to conduct an attack.
Attackers may have some difficulty against technical players,
who often don't even give the attackers a chance to get started, and thus steer
them into positions they aren't comfortable in. However if the attacking player
ever manages to mix it up against the more technical types, the attacker stands a
great chance of landing a knockout. Their games can be very entertaining as you
know there is always a good chance for some fireworks.
Tricky
There is something about the way a tricky player plays that's very disconcerting.
Repeatedly they will play moves that you didn't even consider and that just flat out
look weird, to the extent that it may become very confusing for you. They never
give up, and are constantly looking for ways to trap and attack you. These types of
players are usually very entertaining because of their resourceful and imaginative
style. They can be differentiated from calculating and attacking players mainly by
the unorthodox nature of their play.
Natural player
Players are usually pretty well rounded, but lean more towards the
aggressive/tactical side. They often play enterprising openings and try to simply
outplay you. They aren't scared to mix things up and are usually fighting constantly.
Dynamic players are well rounded enough to not feel too uncomfortable if the
position should be strategical or dry. Sometimes they may play the same openings
game after game, however their opening choices are a lot more double-edged.
I went through a bunch of sites and even this one to get a valid categlorization ofchess styles and players. possibly even the predicted openings for each would be good. there is a long way to go in linking them together. kingscrusher's evolution of style series on youtube has helped a little. i want help in getting all the official statistic breakdown of all the players. I happen to overlook the entirety of the players in their games because im not a grandmaster. if posible i want a conversion chart or something. universifying specific types of all chess styles would be great. This concept is interesting and maybe even myers briggs personaliy type coorelates. lots of factors do. give me some output if you all can, thanks everyone!
Evolution of style-
Romantics
Hypermodernists
Classical
Technicians
Thinkers
Dynamists
Concrete
Carlsen style
Types of chess players
Mad Scientist Steinitz positional
Surgeon Lasker Practical-positional
Genius Capablanca intuitive
Anaconda Nimzovitch tricky-positional
Mastermind Alekhine Calculating
Professional Botvinnik Positional
Escape Artist Korchnoi tricky
Magician Tal attacking
Assassin Fischer Calculating
Grinder Karpov Positional
Romantic Ivanchuk technical
Champion Kasparov Dynamic
Natural Anand Logical
Technician Kramnik Positional
Barbarian Nakamura Dynamic
Prodigy Carlsen concrete
Extra----
Professional Petrosian Positional
Actual romantic (before 1900s style) Bird attacking
Magician Winter attacking
Natural Euwe logical
Professional Smyslov ultra-solid Positional
Barbarian Spassky dynamic
Genius Rubinstein technical
Grinder Reshevsky Positional
Romantic Short technical
Genius Sultan Khan intuitive
Romantic Bogolyubov attacking
Mad Scientist Tarrasch dynamic
Assassin Taimanov attacking
May or may not be accurate for all of them,
its my intuitive feel for the players.
The players i know the best are Capablanca, Rubinstein, and
Karpov.
Technical:
A technical player will usually play the same openings repeatedly
and know them extremely well. Usually these systems are positionally
based and they know the strategical ideas extremely well.
They may become uncomfortable when confronted with a new and
unfamiliar position, however they usually do everything they can
to aim for the positions they understand. Sometimes they make even
make concessions to avoid being attacked or giving up counterplay
, even if this may not be the objectively correct decision. Despite this,
they are hard to play against, because you feel like you are always
playing into their strongpoints. Almost all technical player's seem
to have an incredible overall chess understanding. It's a very practical
style of play that's used by some of the most active and successful
players in the nation, and it's almost impossible to be a "techincal"
player, without being very strong, as it requires too much chess
understanding for lower rated players to use successfully.
Examples - GM Igor Novikov, GM Alex Wojtkiewicz, IM John Donaldson
Positional:
Positional Players are a bit different than technical players.
Postional players are more versatile in their opening choices
and simply rely on their general chess understanding to find the
right solution in all positions. The difference between a "positional"
player and a "technical" player is almost psychological, as the
positional player's simply don't go out of their way to avoid
unfamiliar positions, or positions in which they are being attacked.
Despite all this, positional players may be easier to face if you have
a tactical nature, as it's usually a bit easier to steer the game towards
your style.
Examples - GM Yasser Seirawan, GM Joel Benjamin, GM Julio Becerra
Attacking:
Attacking players feel comfortable with the initiative.
They want to be always attacking the opponent, and depending
on whether they are, their strength may vary by quite a bit.
Some attackers don't even have to be great calculators,
but instead just have a natural understanding of how to conduct
an attack.
Attackers may have some difficulty against technical players,
who often don't even give the attackers a chance to get started,
and thus steer them into positions they aren't comfortable in.
However if the attacking player ever manages to mix it up against t
he more technical types, the attacker stands a great chance of
landing a knockout. Their games can be very entertaining as
you know there is always a good chance for some fireworks.
Examples - GM Larry Christiansen, WIM Jenn Shahade, FM Dmitry Zilberstein
Calculating:
Calculating players generally work very hard at the board.
Even though their general chess intuition may not be the greatest,
they make up for it by pure and raw calculation power.
You can almost feel their brains going overtime as you sit across
from them. They try to always see one move further then their
opponent, and are ready to pounce if you make just the slightest
miscalculation. These players may often work so hard throughout
the game that they end up in serious time trouble. Some of the
toughest players to play against are technical players who are also
strong calculators.
Examples - GM Alex Ivanov, GM Gregory Kaidanov, GM Walter Browne
Tricky:
There is something about the way a tricky player plays that's
very disconcerting. Repeatedly they will play moves that you didn't
even consider and that just flat out look weird, to the extent that it
may become very confusing for you. They never give up, and are
constantly looking for ways to trap and attack you. These types of
players are usually very entertaining because of their resourceful
and imaginative style. They can be differentiated from calculating
and attacking players mainly by the unorthodox nature of their
play.
Examples - GM Alex Shabalov, Julian Hodgson, GM Pavel Blatny, IM Yuri Lapshun
Dynamic:
Dynamic players are usually pretty well rounded,
but lean more towards the aggressive/tactical side.
They often play enterprising openings and try to simply outplay
you. They aren't scared to mix things up and are usually
fighting constantly. Dynamic players are well rounded
enough to not feel too uncomfortable if the position should be
strategical or dry. Sometimes they may play the same openings
game after game, however they are different than technical
players because their opening choices are a lot more double-
edged.
Examples - GM Hikaru Nakamura, GM Nick DeFirmian, FM David Pruess
Practical:
These players have a little bit of edge to their game.
They understand that chess is a game, and the object is to do
everything possible to win and not always to find the absolute
best move. They often will play very quickly to put clock related
pressure on you, and will often understand and avoid your strength'
s. They usually will play openings they are very familiar with.
Technical players are often very practical as well, however they
are usually a lot more limited in their opening choices, whereas
practical players can play a more types of postions comfortably.
Despite being comfortable in more types of openings, these
players often have serious holes in their theoretical knowledge.
They just hope to get a reasonable position out of the opening
without spending too much time, and then to simply outplay you.
Examples - GM Leonid Yudasin, IM Jay Bonin
Intuitive These are a weird group of players.
You get the sense that they simply understand where the pieces
belong, whether the game is positional or tactical in nature. They
may not be the best pure calculators, but they make up for it by
moving quickly and confidently and being able to easily found
solutions where others may have to spend a lot more time. Their
reliance on their intuition may sometimes be a weakness
as they trust their instincts too much when the position demands
harder work.
Examples - GM John Fedorowicz
Logical:
Logical player's seem to try very hard to try to understand the
position they are playing from a logical perspective.
They are pretty solid at all phases of the game but usually not
spectacular at any. They are good at adapting to unfamiliar
position's and approaching them with a fresh mind as they have
no preconceptions of what type's of positions they would like to
play, and instead try to find the objective best move.
These players won't often try anything too unorthodox
, however they also won't shy away from complications
if they are necessary.
Examples - GM Jonathan Rowson, IM Vinay Bhat
Young:
Often young players have not yet developed a sense of style. It's very rare that you will find a positional young player, however they often develop into positional players when they mature. For this reason, some young players will go unclassified until their style develops more.
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It should be noted that every Chess player falls under certain Class. Basically all Chess players can be classified as:
1) Brute force Type
Brute force implies using the current position to solve for mate
in a straightforward manner. Brute force type chess players are
usually the entry level players who have started to appreciate the
game. Their type of chess play is easy to learn and implement
tactics and positional play. But the disadvantage brute force type
of Chess players is that it is usually very slow and can be applied
only to chess positions where number of pieces on the board is
small.
2) Divide and conquer Type
The divide and conquer type chess players, divide the given chess
position by a constant factor (positional advantage) in each move
by visualizing the next position mentaly (usually positions 4 to 5
moves ahead). This means they have to analyze lesser and lesser
part of the original position in each move. Some of the fastest
and highly rated Chess Players belong to this class.
3) Decrease and conquer Type
This type of Chess Players are the same as divide and conquer
type, except, here they are decreasing the current chess positional
complexity in each move by a constant size (attack+defence)
instead of constant factor (checkmate).
4) Dynamic Type
The ‘dynamic’ chess players type refers to the method and style
of play using which these chess player arrives at the end result,
and chess players who have previously exhibited such methodoly
of their play in thier adopted field of chess research. Sometimes,
a solution to the given instance of chess position depends on the
smaller instance of sub-positions. It exhibits the property of overlapping sub-positions.
Hence, to move ahead from a chess position, they may have to
reconsider same positional advantage again and again for smaller
subpositions. Hence, it may waste their 'brain cycle time' with
every next move. To remedy this, they basically, “remember”
the result of each subposition. Whenever they need it, they will
use that known expected result instead of reevaluating it again
and again. Here, we are trading memory power of the chess player
for time, to increase his move speed drastically.
Dynamic type are a very important class of chess players to
identify solutions to chess positions that have many overlapping
sub-positions.
5) Greedy Type
For many chess positions, making greedy choices leads to an
optimal positional advantage. These type of chess players optimize
the current equally distributed position. The greedy type chess players,
in each move, will make a locally optimum chess position such that
it will lead to a globally optimal chess postion resulting in mate.
(sacrifice move)
Once a choice about next move is made,
these type of players usually do not retract it in later stages.