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The 10 Greatest ROMANTIC chess players
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Mar 6, 2009
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Around the time Karel Traxler was analyzing the improbable 4...Bc5!? in the 4.Ng5 variation of the 2 Knight's Defense, with the ironic result that a Catholic Priest advances one of the more romantic of openings (comparable, perhaps, only to the Muzio), another quite romantic amateur of considerable skill played the following, equally improbable, Muzio:
if u play the muzio against anyone who knows how to defend well and i promise u it wont turn out like that! but its a nice example of how to whip a player who doesn't know how to defend! nice game!
Morphy, Anderssen, LaBourdonnais, Saint-Amant, Staunton, Cochrane, Kieseritzky, Blackburne...
20th century romantics? Diemer, Basman (doesn't really belong... but he needs some sort of crackpot honor), Nezhmetidinov (however that's spelled), Tal, Spielmann, Spassky (with the King's Gambit), J. Polgar
21st century... Carlsen, Nakamura, Gambit Fruit
Mar 6, 2009
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Then again, when one knows how to defend well, the Muzio sometimes ends like this:
Here's some Romantic chess -- I did the annotations with some help from Toga II
It seems only right to have a game from Morphy himself. Here he demolishes Anderssen (the player behind the 'Immortal' and 'Evergreen' games) with a blistering attack:
And another, with the black pieces:
What is romanticism in chess? Is romanticism based on the attack,imagination,intuition? Is romanticism escape from the material side of chessboard? Who are romantic chessplayers? Are They a tactical players only? What about positional players? I think that romanticism is a general term and referes both :the position and the tactics,but I don't wanna go in this topic.
In my opinion the greatest romantic chessplayers were:
Morphy,Tal,Anderssen,Blackburne,Cole,and a Guy from the park in the center of my city. He plays chess in the park and drinks all the time. I swear, somoetimes, He is more dangerosus than Tal:)
Some people say,that alekhine was a greate romantic chessplayer. He wasn't a man of honor therefore I'm not in the mood to write about him.
A lot of people say, that Morphy was not romantic but he was a position player. I don't agree with those people.Why everything must be white or black? Morphy was white and black. Ask me a question:Who was the most romantic player? I answer a question, that Morphy was. Ask me a question now:Who was the best position player? I'm answering Your question,that Morphy was. Morphy didn't limit chess to the one dimension. He was the greatest romantic player and the greatest position player. He saw a lot of dimensions of the chessboard. He was able to change a position situation in the tactical situation at the chessboard. And He was able to change a tactical situation in the position situation in the time of his play. His style was uniwersal. Therfore He was the best player. The same like Capablanca which style of play was uniwersal too. Morphy and Capablanca knew, when to use the position tools, and when tactics tools. Tactical tools and position tools are contemplary in their style of play. Morphy was a scientist and romantic. He was a position player and tactics player. He was a magician and mathematician.Key to his style was that ,He knew when to use tactics and when to play in a position way.
Well, I think I'm romantic and a chess player. So am I on the list?
Andersen, Morphy, Zukertort, Chigorin, (and most 19th players : Blackburne, Bird...), Marshall, Janowsky and Spielmann and Tal.
I won't try to define what Romanticism is, but I think those players share a certain style that may be called romanticism.
Very interesting. It's amazing looking at World Champions who can hold the title well into middle age. Steinitz held the title until he was quite old, and Lasker a record 27 YEARS!! It is quite definite that later 1800 players did start to develop a scientific style, like the players above.