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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…

Botwinnik and Short also considered Blitz to be bad while Bronstein, Tal and Petrosian loved to play Blitz. Every person is different.

After 1.c4 Nf6 2.Nc3 one of the most played moves is 2...g6 and it is also labled by Stockfish as inaccurate! So please realize that the Stockfish engine is tuned to get maximum results against other …

Have tried a few DVD's and to be honest, I prefer a book. Can't say anything about above DVDs, but if a book is also an option you might consider this one as well: Romero Holmes, Alfonso, and Oscar de…

Well, not everybody will agree with Svenshnikov that after 3.d4 black can equalize by playing the Löwenthal (3...cxd4 4.Nxd4 e5) and regarding the Alapin I quote from his wonderful book The complete c…

Very instructive, thank you very much! A classic example of odd bishops is Rubinstein - Spielmann: http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1007553 With 26.Bxd5! Rubinstein enforces odd bishops an…

It is all about statistics. If a low rated player has 1% chance of playing a perfect game and he does play 700 games, he will on average play 7 perfect games. Nothing strange in that. However the chan…

To avoid misunderstanding, when I created this topic I had no indication of foul play, as mentioned above, this game can be played by lower rated players if they have memorized the opening line and th…

@todo_pro: think you are correct. While lower rated players can also play a perfect game once in a while, in my opponents recent games it suddenly happens many times. So either he must have studied re…

Good info, thanks!