Maxime Vachier-Lagrave, Fabiano Caruana
Top active players who are ‘theoreticians’
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Dec 22, 2021
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tygxc wrote:
Maxime Vachier-Lagrave, Fabiano Caruana
According to Chessbase DVD they are categorized as 'pragmatics'
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I do not know about DVDs, but Maxime Vachier-Lagrave is the leading authority on the theory of the Najdorf and the Grünfeld and he plays these all the time against everybody, with no fear of preparation by the opponent in confidence that they cannot out-prepare him.
Fabiano Caruana is well known to engage in theoretical discussions where his extraordinary deep preparation often prevails.
Here is a clash between both:
https://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1993385
Caruana had prepared deeper, but Vachier-Lagrave was able to hold his own on the board. However he lost a table base drawn position.
Dec 22, 2021
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There are 4 Categories:
Activists : Intuitive Attackers like Weltmeister Alekhine, Tal, Spassky, Kasparov, Anand
Shirov, Morozevich, Nezhmetdinov, Topalov, Pillsbury, Anderssen, Bronstein, Larsen, Taimanov, Aronian, Judit Polgar, ...
Reflectors (Intuitive and Technical: Very deep and intuitive understanding of strategy) like Weltmeister Capablanca, Smyslov, Petrosian, Karpov, Carlsen
Michael Adams, Akiba Rubinstein, Vincent Keymer
Pragmatics: Don't rely on intuition they rely on their calculating power, concrete players like Fischer, Euwe, Lasker, Korchnoi, MVL, Caruana, Ding...
Theorists (logical and technical, general concepts): Steinitz, Botvinnik, Kramnik
Tarrasch, Nimzowitsch (Mein System), Peter Leko, Anish Giri, Georg Meier, Ulf Andersson, Nikola Sedlak, Sergey Tiviakov, Ruslan Ponomariov
With ‘theoreticians’ I mean the same as it is explained by Bo Hansen and the chessbase dvd about 4 types of players. I would like to know some top 50/100 players who are active ‘theoreticians’, so I can follow and learn from their style. Any suggestions?