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Continuing our series of classics you must study if you want to become a complete chess player, we are going to talk today about one player who built the foundation of the strategic concepts and principles as we know them today, Wilhelm Steinitz. He was born in 1836 in Prague (back then part of the […]

Emanuel Lasker needs no introduction. Lasker held a world chess championship title for 27 (!!) years. In his prime he was the most dominant and influential chess player. Lasker is considered to be one of the greatest chess players ever. He was known to use a “psychological” approach. Sometimes he deliberately played not the strongest […]