I was going through Paul Keres' book on the 1948 world championship tournament and I see that the state of opening theory at the time is what most of us play like.
What does that "most of us" mean? Are you talking about players here? I would think you would look at leading grandmasters' play.
The same opening lines were popular?
I was going through Paul Keres' book on the 1948 world championship tournament and I see that the state of opening theory at the time is what most of us play like.
What does that "most of us" mean? ...
Yeah, setting aside 1948, I think that there is already a big difference, for example, between the opening play of a 1000 player and a 1700 player.
I was going through Paul Keres' book on the 1948 world championship tournament and I see that the state of opening theory at the time is what most of us play like.
There is a certain sort of illusion that appears to be a bunch of randomly arranged rectangles with different shades of gray. Nevertheless, if one stands at just the right distance, it looks like Lincoln. I am far from being the right sort of person to consider this question, but, since I have the Keres book and nobody else seems to want to do it, I decided to do a little browsing and see how things looked to me. I got the feeling that I was not looking from the right distance. For what it is worth, here is some of what struck me:
I found two games that reached the position after
(In both of them, ...O-O was played before ...d6.) Both of them continued with 9...Na5 10 Bc2 c5 11 d4 Qc7 12 Nbd2.
I found only one Sicilian:
Didn't find any Caro-Kanns. I found one 1 c4 Nf6 game and two 1 c4 e6 games, but no 1 c4 c5 or 1 c4 e5 games. This article
https://web.archive.org/web/20140708112658/http://www.chesscafe.com/text/review315.pdf
is not about 1948, but perhaps some of the comments would be of interest as an approximate reflection of the evolution in openings over the decades since those days.
"... Fine turned down an invitation to play in the World Championship tournament of 1948, and his career was effectively over when the Soviet chess revolution occurred. He seems never to have fully realized the implications of the new ideas introduced by that revolution. ..."
I was going through Paul Keres' book on the 1948 world championship tournament and I see that the state of opening theory at the time is what most of us play like.
I was making the point that it is better to study games from that period rather than later games.
I was going through Paul Keres' book on the 1948 world championship tournament and I see that the state of opening theory at the time is what most of us play like.