Seriously, what is "romantic" chess? I heard something like there was an era of chess so called romantic and it involves players giving sacrifices and thier oponent must accept it or it will be considered rude. Is it something like that? It sounds really interesting. I want to be a "romantic" chess player now. Somebody please tell me how.
Originally posted by exigentsky ...even when such an approach is unsound.
Originally posted by stanloh it involves players giving sacrifices and thier oponent must accept it or it will be considered rude.
Do these things sound particularly smart to you??? 😉
When you have to accept a sac or when you have to attack relentlessly even when it is unsound i think it is by default not a very smart way to play chess.
Originally posted by stanloh Seriously, what is "romantic" chess? I heard something like there was an era of chess so called romantic and it involves players giving sacrifices and thier oponent must accept it or it will be considered rude. Is it something like that? It sounds really interesting. I want to be a "romantic" chess player now. Somebody please tell me how.
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Its the romantic era. Blackburne etc. The time when to not accept a gambit was considered unmanly, roaarrrrr, the time before all this nansy pansy crap about pawn stucture, when you mate, game over chaa ching. Over protection, pahhhh if I gambit the blasted pawns then I wont have to use a whole god damn rook looking after the little critters, rooks attack kings not protect pawns. rrrrooooooooarrrrrrrrrr.
Originally posted by Bedlam Its the romantic era. Blackburne etc. The time when to not accept a gambit was considered unmanly, roaarrrrr, the time before all this nansy pansy crap about pawn stucture, when you mate, game over chaa ching. Over protection, pahhhh if I gambit the blasted pawns then I wont have to use a whole god damn rook looking after the little critters, rooks attack kings not protect pawns. rrrrooooooooarrrrrrrrrr.
I just had to rec that 'hockey fan' response 😀
helps put me in the right state of mind to understand that kind of play 😉
Originally posted by Bedlam Its the romantic era. Blackburne etc. The time when to not accept a gambit was considered unmanly, roaarrrrr, the time before all this nansy pansy crap about pawn stucture, when you mate, game over chaa ching. Over protection, pahhhh if I gambit the blasted pawns then I wont have to use a whole god damn rook looking after the little critters, rooks attack kings not protect pawns. rrrrooooooooarrrrrrrrrr.
Now, that gives me an idea of what the romantic era is about.
"Romantic" chess is an attempt by scholars to make chess style fit into a literary pigeonhole of the same time, like romantic poetry or romantic music, which hearkened back to the romances of the middle ages. Chess players like Blackburn and Macdonnell (I know im not getting these names right) thought sacrificing was an efficient way to win the game. And in many cases it was. Believe me, if any chessplayer, including the above, thought pushing pawns would win the game, they would push pawns. If you played over some of the games of Harrwitz, Staunton, etc. (aside from weak opening theory) you'd think they were played yesterday.
Romantic chess was the style of chess prevalent from the 1600's through the late 1800's.
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24 Apr '06 02:16
What exactly is "romantic" chess?
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