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If you could train on the hands of a dead chess player ! who would you choose?
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May 31, 2013
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That's tough to say because there's no guarantee a great GM or IM would necessarily be a great teacher. In fact they might be much worse for most of us than a "lowly" FM or NM who was an excellent teacher. AND being an indecisive shnook it's tough for me to come up with one choice only!
BUT, to finally answer your interesting question, I'd choose a GM who spoke english (since I'm not bi-lingual) and who I think I'd get along with in general so I might pick the late GM Mednis who I met (and played) in person once he seemed to be a nice guy and he wrote endgame (and other) columns for CL for many years that I enjoyed reading. In case he wasn't available I think GM Euwe might be a good teacher as he wrote lots of instructive books and was once described by Fischer as being "too normal" I think I could deal with that a lot easier than someone "too crazy" like Fischer!
Fischer
alekhine - I mean, look at that nice hand!
Tal! And his sacs!
Jun 3, 2013
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MSC157 wrote:
Tal! And his sacs!
I'll see your Tal and raise you one Nezhmetdinov! Nobody sac'd better!
Don't know...
Morphy
If you could train on the hands of a dead chess player ! who would you choose?