No, nor should there be. They have "culturally appropriated" the Centre Counter Defence and don't deserve a school !
Has anyone coined the phrase "The Scandinavian School of Chess (training)"?
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Dec 4, 2021
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Ziggy_Zugzwang wrote:
No, nor should there be. They have "culturally appropriated" the Centre Counter Defence and don't deserve a school !
What do they deserve, in your estimation?
A slap on the side of the head?
Dec 5, 2021
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It would be quite interesting to ask this question of the named people (and other like Tikkanen and Agdestein).
I'm not sure that there is a "Scandi school of chess". Looking at the people you named:
- Aagaard has been living in Scotland for more than a decade.
- Hellsten cites training national teams in for Chile and Ecuador which suggests that he has been spending a lot of time in South America
- Jonathan Tisdall (to my knowledge) is a journalist. He was a news service correspondent in Moscow for the first Karpov-Kasparov which (unusually among journalists) meant he was still in town 5 months after the match started to report on the cancellation.
It stands to reason that strong players stimulate the chess community. We talk about the Fischer boom. We talk less about the Euwe boom, but between Donner, Timman, Van der Wiel, Van der Sterren, Van Wely and Giri, the Netherland has produced more strong GMs than it's population might suggest.
There is probably an equivalent effect associated with Carlsen. It is noticeable that the timelines in the Woodpecker Method all suggest intensified efforts to reach the GM title after Carlsen hit the top of the ELO ratings.
Dec 5, 2021
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realraptor wrote:
It would be quite interesting to ask this question of the named people (and other like Tikkanen and Agdestein).
I'm not sure that there is a "Scandi school of chess". Looking at the people you named:
- Aagaard has been living in Scotland for more than a decade.
- Hellsten cites training national teams in for Chile and Ecuador which suggests that he has been spending a lot of time in South America
- Jonathan Tisdall (to my knowledge) is a journalist. He was a news service correspondent in Moscow for the first Karpov-Kasparov which (unusually among journalists) meant he was still in town 5 months after the match started to report on the cancellation.
It stands to reason that strong players stimulate the chess community. We talk about the Fischer boom. We talk less about the Euwe boom, but between Donner, Timman, Van der Wiel, Van der Sterren, Van Wely and Giri, the Netherland has produced more strong GMs than it's population might suggest.
There is probably an equivalent effect associated with Carlsen. It is noticeable that the timelines in the Woodpecker Method all suggest intensified efforts to reach the GM title after Carlsen hit the top of the ELO ratings.
Very good points indeed! I probably only asked the question because I like the books!
It is incredible how there has been this outpouring of inspirational coaching and and books - Jonathan Tisdall, Axel Smith, Johan Hellsten Jacob Aagard and why not include Lars Bo Hansen!