fred lennox Member since Apr-14-02 · Last seen Nov-24-09 I suppose if i were to pick two hero's in chess it would be Adolf Anderssen and Alekhine. Two major influences are Steinitz and Botvinnik. The monumental vigor of the former. The latter for his firmness, boldness, and virile austerity. In defense, Petrosian and Lasker, especially creating counterplay in simpler positions. For more open tactical playing, Spassky and LaBourdonnias. Others include Zukertort, Chigorin, Nimzowitch, Bronstein, Larsen, and Kamsky. Three cornerstone books. Alekhine My best games. Read when i first started playing. Strongly influenced my viewpoint and affinity for the game. Tartakower 500 Before reading this i was an open player. Didn't care for hypermodern. With 500 i became fascinated with asymmetrical openings and Tartakowers energetic, intricate playing. Also my heart opened up to Reti, Nimzowitch and Breyer. Botvinnik 100 Selected It's concentrated power, it's aversion to the loose and indefinite and being sensitive to the exact sequence of moves. "Boldness has genius, power and magic in it" - Goethe.

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Nov-19-09 Breyer vs Bogoljubov, 1920   fred lennox: <Pawn and Two> You are an informative kibitzer. Thank you for that.      Nov-17-09 Breyer vs F Englund, 1913   fred lennox: a brilliant miniature. the point of 12.Nb5 is to expose e7 - point of no return.      Nov-13-09 Bukhuti Gurgenidze   fred lennox: It pleases me to see this player well received. I'm quite fond of Gurgenidze myself. He was a geologist by profession. Here is a nice game. Gurgenidze vs Averbakh, 1961      Nov-13-09 Carlsen vs Ponomariov, 2009    fred lennox: im a couple of moves Qxg5+ allows some counterplay.      Nov-12-09 Van Essen vs Woskoff, 1931    fred lennox: Long live the fork! It's the devils advocate.      Nov-12-09 Mikhail Chigorin    fred lennox: Against Steinitz chigorin's record is 26 loses, 25 wins and 8 ties. A colorful rivalry. Steinitz showed himself superior in match play. there 1st match 10-1-6 in steinitz favor as the second 10-5-8. Steinitz showed better stamina in nerves and concentration.      Nov-12-09 Florin Gheorghiu   fred lennox: The thing about the maroczy bind is that it isn't the rosy picture for white as once thought. Not because things are found easier for black, no the situation for black is not easy. It's been found that things aren't so easy for white, making for an interesting formation. Not all      Nov-11-09 Max Lange vs NN, 1855    fred lennox: peculiar game. What do you expect; wasp variation on an elephant gambit.      Nov-11-09 Louis Paulsen   fred lennox: Calling Paulsen the father of hypermodern depends how much you want to consider the child father of the man. There's Staunton, Anderssen, Steinitz and a not so obvious Lasker, all forshadowed hypermodern. Father is a bit misused. Establisher is more the point, though less ...      Nov-11-09 Paulsen vs NN, 1858   fred lennox: the point of 53...Rg1 is to prevent 54. Rd8. mate. So it was forced though it didn't prevent black from loosing.

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Apr-17-06    themadhair: First to post - woohoo. I would make a shout for Keres to be the ideal role model. Why? Because he showed time and time again that a solid position doesn't have to be boring. Apr-30-06    fred lennox: Thanx for the post. It is a good shout. The way Keres blends elegance with vigor is a marvel. From this viewpoint, he may be called the Morphy of the century. He wrote an outstanding book on endgame which is still an excellent book. Kasparov gave Keres the distinction of being the best player never to win the crown. Apr-30-06    themadhair: I always thought that Kasparov gave that title to Korchnoi. Learn something new everyday.		New in Chess Yearbook

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