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Top 3 most defensive, cautious and conservative grandmasters?

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InfernalBishop

Schlecter, Petrossian and Ulf Andersson.

Noreaster

1.) Ulf Anderson

2.) Salo Flohr

3.) Peter Leko

Noreaster

I agree on reconsidering Petrosian. He has some very nice attacking games......Flohr & Ulf Anderson games are as dry as sawdust....

Immryr

ulf anderson was a positional master!

mamie90

petrosian.... karpov ... steinitz

Robert_New_Alekhine
mamie90 wrote:

petrosian.... karpov ... steinitz

Anyone BUT steinitz. He went all-out in his games to defend his principles. He invented the weirdest line of the King's Gambhit where the king winds up on e3.