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positional chess player as a reference

i have been searching legendary chess player who is famous for his positional style?...i would like to be a positional chess player... any recommend, master?...
The best positional players were excellent tacticians as well because good positional chess is founded on small tactical details. Iron Petrosian was one of them, he was also a strong Blitz player and had good combinations.

idk, man
vladimir kramnik, ulf andersson, anatoly karpov

[edit: and yeah, @Sarg0n's post is an useful reminder. a "positional player" that is bad at tactics is just a patzer]
Hello mr chess_js, i do not know if this is a good advice and maybe some players could not agree with me,but i really like Tigran Vartanovic Petrosian. As second choice,some players tell that also Anatoly Karpov was good but my second choice could be Jose Raul Hulk Capablanca. PS: Even if you study games of actual world champion Magnus Carlsen,it is a good example of how to avoid counterattack of opponent. All the best!
Modern day Kasparov is a great example of an extremely strong positional player who has gotten a little rusty with tactics. Perhaps it's just he is not use to blitz / rapid, and would fair better in longer time controls.
Thank you to all of you, master. I will explore those player's games.
Rubinstein is a great player to learn from.

Capablanca was a great positional player and his book Chess Fundamentals is a classic (Karpov did learn a lot from this book).

Tarrasch was a great allround player and his books 300 Schachpartien and Die Moderne Schachpartie are excellent teachings of positional play as well. Tarrasch did update Steinitz ideas by putting much more focus on piece mobility and his comments are also accessible to the average chess player. While his view on certain openings is dogmatic, the quality of his analyzes is outstanding!

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