{"id":186,"date":"2015-02-14T19:16:05","date_gmt":"2015-02-15T00:16:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gainesvillechesstraining.com\/?p=186"},"modified":"2015-02-15T23:50:12","modified_gmt":"2015-02-16T04:50:12","slug":"pleasant-readings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/gainesvillechesstraining.com\/?p=186","title":{"rendered":"Meet the Romantics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you only want to read a well written chess\u00a0book here are my recommendations. <strong>Craig Pritchett Chess Romantics<\/strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/gainesvillechesstraining.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/photo-Great-romantics-e1423959295226.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-187\" src=\"http:\/\/gainesvillechesstraining.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/photo-Great-romantics-e1423959295226.jpg\" alt=\"Great romantics\" width=\"968\" height=\"1296\" srcset=\"http:\/\/gainesvillechesstraining.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/photo-Great-romantics-e1423959295226.jpg 968w, http:\/\/gainesvillechesstraining.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/photo-Great-romantics-e1423959295226-224x300.jpg 224w, http:\/\/gainesvillechesstraining.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/photo-Great-romantics-e1423959295226-765x1024.jpg 765w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 968px) 100vw, 968px\" \/> <\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">The book covers five Romantic players, Anderssen, Chigorin, Reti, Larsen and Morozevich. Pritchett does a great job selecting model games for each player\u00a0and showing their contribution to modern chess. For example, before reading this book I was under the impression that Anderssen victories were base on tactics (over calculating his opponent). Now I understand that before\u00a0Anderssen unleashed \u00a0a tactical combination a position foundation was established.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">The author also compares the five romantic players with other players from theirs time. The matches between Chigorin and Tarrash are explained not only with annotations, but \u00a0from the differences in chess styles. Tarrasch&#8217;s classic space gaining strategy versus Chigorin skills in planning and\u00a0tactical play in complex situations (a characteristic shared by Anderssen, Reti, Larsen and Morozevich. I guess this is the connection between all the players in this book)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">What I like the most from this book is Pritchett<strong>&#8216;<\/strong>s mastery in connecting each player with the corresponding era at the same time that opening and middlegames ideas are explained and updated. The book flows nicely even when explaining Larsen&#8217;s games! This effort by Pritchett must make it to the whishing list of every chess player looking to understand dynamic chess and enjoy a selection of well annotated games.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you only want to read a well written chess\u00a0book here are my recommendations. Craig Pritchett Chess Romantics The book covers five Romantic players, Anderssen, Chigorin, Reti, Larsen and Morozevich. Pritchett does a great job selecting model games for each &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/gainesvillechesstraining.com\/?p=186\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/gainesvillechesstraining.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/gainesvillechesstraining.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/gainesvillechesstraining.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gainesvillechesstraining.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gainesvillechesstraining.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=186"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/gainesvillechesstraining.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":203,"href":"http:\/\/gainesvillechesstraining.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186\/revisions\/203"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/gainesvillechesstraining.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=186"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gainesvillechesstraining.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=186"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gainesvillechesstraining.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=186"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}