Hello. My name is Connor and I am a dedicated amateur chess player currently living in the U.S.Rating: ~2000 (Class A/Expert)
Favorites (sampling of players whose games I enjoy):
Francois Philidor, Louis Charles Mahe De La Bourdonnais, Howard Staunton, Adolf Anderssen, Henry Bird, Paul Morphy, Wilhelm Steinitz, Jose Raul Capablanca, Mikhail Botvinnik, Anatoly Karpov, Vasily Smyslov, Akiba Rubinstein, Viktor Korchnoi, Tigran Petrosian, Robert James Fischer, Siegbert Tarrasch, Mikhail Chigorin, David Bronstein, Paul Keres, Mikhail Tal, Boris Spassky, Harry Pillsbury, Viswanathan Anand, Vladimir Kramnik, Magnus Carlsen, Aron Nimzowitsch, Bent Larsen, Samuel Reshevsky, Svetozar Gligoric, Pal Benko, Frank Marshall, Veselin Topalov, Rashid Nezhmetdinov, Ignatz von Kolisch, Alexey Shirov, Andre Lilienthal, Alexander Tolush, Efim Bogoljubov, Lajos Portisch, Jan Timman, Dragoljub Velimirovic, Alexey Sokolsky, Richard Reti, Peter Leko, Sergey Karjakin, Edgar Colle, Judit Polgar, Ulf Andersson, Evgeny Sveshnikov, Ljubomir Ljubojevic, Vlastimil Hort, Zoltan Ribli, Vitaly Tseshkovsky, Rezso Charousek, Larry Christiansen, Roman Dzindzichashvili, Gyula Breyer, Israel Albert Horowitz, Amos Burn, Jan Smejkal, Yifan Hou, Anthony Santasiere, John Nunn, George Mackenzie, Aivars Gipslis, Lembit Oll, Grigor Minchev, Alvis Vitolinsh, Salomon Flohr, Reuben Fine, Milan Matulovic, Kamran Shirazi, Michael Basman, Joshua Waitzkin, Wolfgang Uhlmann, Robert Huebner, Lev Polugaevsky, Klaus Junge, Vladimir Kovacevic, Cenek Kottnauer, Bozidar Ivanovic, Harry Golombek, Eugene Znosko-Borovsky, Yevgeniy Vladimirov, Tony Miles, Alexander Riazantsev, Jonathan Speelman, Emory Tate, Alexander Beliavsky, Savielly Tartakower, Vasyl Ivanchuk, Dusko Pavasovic, Joseph Blackburne, Genrikh Chepukaitis, Conel Hugh O'Donel Alexander, Carlos Torre Repetto, Raymond Keene, David Janowski, Borislav Ivkov, Lawrence Day, Zvulon Gofshtein, Johannes Zukertort, Grigory Levenfish, Georges Koltanowski, Albin Planinc, Ludek Pachman, Yasser Seirawan, Eugenio Torre, Andras Adorjan, Nick de Firmian, John Curdo, Isaac Boleslavsky, Ivan Sokolov, Tamaz Gelashvili, Petar Trifunovic, Fred Dewhirst Yates, John Grefe, Henrique Mecking, Friedrich Saemisch, Istvan Bilek, Sultan Khan, Mark Taimanov, Jan Plachetka, Vlastimil Jansa, Truong Son Nguyen, Laszlo Szabo, Lubomir Ftacnik, Miroslav Filip, Lubomir Kavalek, Julio Granda Zuniga, Oldrich Duras, Louis Paulsen, Ossip Bernstein, Ratmir Kholmov, Robert Wade, Lionel Kieseritzky, Carl Schlechter, Erich Eliskases, Kiril Georgiev, Vladas Mikenas, Yuri Averbakh, Geza Maroczy, Bukhuti Gurgenidze, Vadim Zvjaginsev, Simon Winawer, Georgi Tringov, Milan Vidmar, Ivan Radulov, Milko Bobotsov, Gideon Stahlberg, Valery Salov, Gosta Stoltz, Eero Book, Gustav Neumann, Leonid Stein, Florin Gheorghiu, Harold James Plaskett, Duncan Suttles, Alexander Konstantinopolsky, Alexander Shabalov, Ketevan Arakhamia-Grant, Teimour Radjabov, John Cochrane, Igor Ivanov, Thanh Trang Hoang, Viktor Kupreichik, Henry Atkins, Drazen Marovic, Lodewijk Prins, Karen Grigorian, Nicolas Rossolimo, Ding Liren, Vidit Santosh Gujrathi, Eduardas Rozentalis, Yury Shulman, Isaac Kashdan
I highly recommend the Yugoslav chess periodical Šahovski Informator (Chess Informant) for quality analysis on hundreds of current games by many of the world's leading players. I have been reading it for many years and have yet to find a more useful resource.
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