What superGM does YOUR style correspond with most?

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Oraoradeki wrote:

I play like Nakamura or Spassky.

But somehow youy are slightly higher rated than them... I hope you don't cheat.

TBentley

I haven't studied their games from when they were less than 10 (or whatever), so I can't say.

Sred

I have a habit of blundering in equal endgames, but that's not a bad thing - it's my Gelfand style!

beardogjones

My style is a combination of Capablanca-Tal-Fischer and Lasker

with some Kasparov mixed in if I really need a win.

madhacker

They are all so much better than me that the question becomes fairly meaningless. I think the best approach for any sub-master-level player is to accept your status as yourself, and try to develop yourself as yourself, rather than trying to model yourself on anyone else.

That doesn't mean you can't have a style, and I don't really agree with those who say amateurs don't have styles. A style is a combination of strengths and weaknesses, knowledge and gaps in knowledge, opening preparation, psychological factors, and many other things, and of course amateurs have these things (in the case of the weaknesses, we have a lot more of them than the professionals!)

varelse1

There wasn’t any particular player I modeled my game after. I tried to learn from everyone and create my own style. I studied past players. Truth be told I never had a favorite player. It’s just not my nature to go around idolizing people. I just go try to learn. - Magnus Carlsen

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Many men, many styles; what is chess style but the intangible expression of the will to win. - Aaron Nimzowitsch

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I do not play chess - I fight at chess. Therefore I willingly combine the tactical with the strategic, the fantastic with the scientific, the combinative with the positional, and I aim to respond to the demands of each given position … - Alexander Alekhine

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The best chess masters of every epoch have been closely linked with the values of the society in which they lived and worked. All the changes of a cultural, political, and psychological background are reflected in the style and ideas of their play. - Garry Kasparov

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In my opinion, the style of a player should not be formed under the influence of any single great master. - Vasily Smyslov

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But you see when I play a game of Bobby, there is no style. Bobby played perfectly. And perfection has no style. - Miguel Najdorf

JamesCoons

Unfortunately none of them, They don't make as many blunders, and I don't see as many beautiful tactics. Somehow I don't see too many SuperGMs with a rating in the mid 1800s. Ask me again when I get my rating back up to the mid 1900s.

gundamv

"Be yourself; everyone else is already taken." - Oscar Wilde

Fingerly

My play doesn't resemble the style of any SuperGM, but my fashion sense lines up the most with this GM, minus the hat and bling:

blueemu

My style resembles that of a Super-GM who has just suffered a brain aneurysm.

gaereagdag

I want my style to be like K-9 from Dr Who who defeated Tom Baker. And if I could have a scantily clad chess sidekick like Leela that would be even better.

ChiseledChessy

im a paul morphy wannabe

RRM888

Nezhmetdinov. I enjoy really complex, tactical positions and play very aggressively but often spoil perfectly good positions for unnecessary complications.

Mainline_Novelty
RRM888 wrote:

Nezhmetdinov. I enjoy really complex, tactical positions and play very aggressively but often spoil perfectly good positions for unnecessary complications.

It's funny because Nezhmetdinov wasn't even a GM...

tliu1222

e4 or d4 are my openings, I try to open stuff up in the middlegame, and I read Silman's Complete Engame blah blah book...hint hint!

No seriously, what would be my style?

duck29

i play like mikhail tal, alot of stupid attacks that when not defended right leads to my gain

RRM888
Mainline_Novelty wrote:
RRM888 wrote:

Nezhmetdinov. I enjoy really complex, tactical positions and play very aggressively but often spoil perfectly good positions for unnecessary complications.

It's funny because Nezhmetdinov wasn't even a GM...

The original post said that it could be a super GM or any famous player. I'm well aware of Nezhmetdinov's incapability to become a GM.

Mainline_Novelty
RRM888 wrote:
Mainline_Novelty wrote:
RRM888 wrote:

Nezhmetdinov. I enjoy really complex, tactical positions and play very aggressively but often spoil perfectly good positions for unnecessary complications.

It's funny because Nezhmetdinov wasn't even a GM...

The original post said that it could be a super GM or any famous player. I'm well aware of Nezhmetdinov's incapability to become a GM.

Hmmm...perhaps I should've read the OP... Tongue Out

heine-borel

Larry Evans. I'm fine with grabbing a pawn and weathering an attack. Solid defensive skills.

MSC157

I don't know. I like openings Kramnik plays, so maybe Kramnik. But I also like unsound sacrifices. I should be Mikhail Kramnik then.

Or Talnik. Kramtal. Whatever. Laughing