Learning from the greats

Some things I picked up from great players.
Some need a grain of salt 🙂

Lucena: build a bridge
Damiano: in most king pawn's openings it's a bad idea to defend your e5 pawn with f6
Greco: a bishop on c4 hitting f7 can be menacing
Legall de Kermeur: pretty mate with 2 N's + B,can be used as opening trap
Philidor: pawns (and their structure) are important
Staunton: avoid battle with a superior force
Anderssen: material means nothing
Morphy: develop asap,open lines,pawns are not THAT important
Steinitz: the king can fight
Tarrasch: when facing a queen's gambit you must get c5 in at some point
Lasker: bad moves can win you the game (already knew this since I make so many bad moves and still win sometimes,but it was nice to see it confirmed by such a great player)
Nimzowitsch: blockade!
Capablanca: chess is easy
Alekhine: there's always some hidden combination waiting to be found
CJS Purdy: the Purdy system
Tal: Alekhine x 10
Donner: preparation is bull,intuition and talent will always prevail
Petrosian: long term exchange sacs (I have yet to acomplish one succesfully but at least I'm looking for them)
Karpov: don't look for trouble if you can win without risk

Originally posted by Ajuin
Some things I picked up from great players.
Some need a grain of salt 🙂

Lucena: build a bridge
Damiano: in most king pawn's openings it's a bad idea to defend your e5 pawn with f6
Greco: a bishop on c4 hitting f7 can be menacing
Legall de Kermeur: pretty mate with 2 N's + B,can be used as opening trap
Philidor: pawns (and their structure) are importan ...[text shortened]... t least I'm looking for them)
Karpov: don't look for trouble if you can win without risk

Originally posted by Ajuin
Some things I picked up from great players.
Some need a grain of salt 🙂

Lucena: build a bridge
Damiano: in most king pawn's openings it's a bad idea to defend your e5 pawn with f6
Greco: a bishop on c4 hitting f7 can be menacing
Legall de Kermeur: pretty mate with 2 N's + B,can be used as opening trap
Philidor: pawns (and their structure) are importan ...[text shortened]... t least I'm looking for them)
Karpov: don't look for trouble if you can win without risk

Originally posted by Ajuin
Some things I picked up from great players.
Some need a grain of salt 🙂

Lucena: build a bridge
Damiano: in most king pawn's openings it's a bad idea to defend your e5 pawn with f6
Greco: a bishop on c4 hitting f7 can be menacing
Legall de Kermeur: pretty mate with 2 N's + B,can be used as opening trap
Philidor: pawns (and their structure) are importan ...[text shortened]... t least I'm looking for them)
Karpov: don't look for trouble if you can win without risk

Originally posted by Ice Cold
Ice Cold: Don't make me slap you.

apart from the pawns are the soul of chess remark, I would be disappointed if Philidor hasn't mentioned me.

Originally posted by philidor position
apart from the pawns are the soul of chess remark, I would be disappointed if Philidor hasn't mentioned me.

Steinitz: They'll take my extra pawn away once they pry it from my cold, dead fingers.
Lasker: Psyching the opponent out is not a cheap, futile tactic, but works at the highest level.
Capablanca: I'm too lazy to actually work at this game.
Alekhine: Dude, check out this 12-move combination that I played blindfolded.
Botvinnik: Hey, FIDE, can I have another rematch?
Tal: Can you withstand the power of my bionic STARE?!
Petrosian: I'm such a badass, I win by moving pieces backwards.
Fischer: I sleep with a pillow under my chess book, I'm THAT hardcore.

Originally posted by SwissGambit
Steinitz: They'll take my extra pawn away once they pry it from my cold, dead fingers.
Lasker: Psyching the opponent out is not a cheap, futile tactic, but works at the highest level.
Capablanca: I'm too lazy to actually work at this game.
Alekhine: Dude, check out this 12-move combination that I played blindfolded.
Botvinnik: Hey, FIDE, can I have a ...[text shortened]... ng pieces backwards.
Fischer: I sleep with a pillow under my chess book, I'm THAT hardcore.