tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1085454862998663312.post3182646311479877621..comments2024-03-14T15:47:13.884-04:00Comments on Tartajubow On Chess II: A Jacques Mieses BrilliancyTartajubowhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07825756152678176267noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1085454862998663312.post-42279637726569829522020-06-19T06:52:45.688-04:002020-06-19T06:52:45.688-04:00Mr. Gottlieb is, as usual, quite correct. GM Alex...Mr. Gottlieb is, as usual, quite correct. GM Alex Yermolinsky addressed this issue at some length in his classic The Road To Chess Improvement. Yermolinsky pointed out that they were good players and they made good moves, but the difficulty came when they tried to explain how they did it. They did it by making generalizations.<br /><br />Yermolinsky also observed that when Alekhine wrote his first book of best games he was “desperately searching for a sponsor to organize his match with Capablanca. Alekhine had to write a book that would tell the world he was a genius and the last thing he wanted to do was cast a shadow of a doubt on his exclusive position in the chess world. The games were selected and annotated in the most presentable way to reach the strategic goal of winning universal recognition as a great player.” Yermo also claimed Nimzovich wrote My System with the same goal of getting a world championship match. Tartajubowhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07825756152678176267noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1085454862998663312.post-19087186141250022072020-06-18T19:47:53.035-04:002020-06-18T19:47:53.035-04:00When Reinfeld and Chernev--and even Tarrasch somet...When Reinfeld and Chernev--and even Tarrasch sometimes--present games as if they were one-sided crushes, it's for teaching purposes. They want to highlight how various positional "sins" get punished. Their examples are aimed at lower-level players, who would certainly wouldn't benefit from any of Kasparov's 5-page variations. These teachers assumed that as you got better, you would see that things are actually more complicated, and you would read more advanced books. Bronstein, for example, derided this kind of annotating, but I'll bet it taught a lot of future mastersPaul Gottliebhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14062464400324829622noreply@blogger.com