The 4 Player Types standard model - Find your strengths and weaknesses and those of your opponent, Karsten Müller (English)
Playing styles in chess are an important and thus often discussed topic. GM Dr. Karsten Müller and GM Luis Engel take up a model by GM Lars Bo Hansen based on 4 player types - namely ‘activists’, ‘pragmatics’, ‘theoreticians’ and so-called ‘reflectors’. Their respective strengths and weaknesses are explained with the help of many examples, enabling the reader to try and assign himself or herself to one or the other player type. More
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CONTENTS
- Introduction
- Activists - Strengths
- Characteristics of activists
- Hyperactivists
- Strengths of activists - Sacrifices for a direct king attack
- The pearl of Wijk aan Zee
- Sacrifices for initiative
- Deep Junior as activist
- Judit Polgar's exchange sacrifice
- Judit Polgar's pawn sacrifices
- Initiative for static weaknesses
- Anand's activity
- Activists advance opening theory
- Anand's immortal game
- Kasparov's hammer blow
- Activists - Endgame
- Strengths - Defence of rook endgames
- Activity counts
- The defender exchanges pawns
- Dynamic trumphs are important - Strong passed pawns
- The swarm of midges
- Endgame types, where dynamic trumphs are important
- A light intiative weighs heavily
- Fire on board
- Anand's counterattack
- Weaknesses of activists in the endgame
- Do not rush
- Pseudo-active defence
- Activists - Weaknesses
- Weaknesses of activists in the endgame - Non-active defence
- Kramnik beats Kasparov
- Pseudo-active pawn moves
- Fatal opening of the kingside
- The defender must be careful when moving pawns
- Too risky attack
- Model games against activists
- Judit Polgar demonstrates reflector qualities
- Tiviakov's theories
- Theorists
- Characteristics of theorists
- The positional school
- Dorfman's method
- The flying rook
- Theorists play logically
- Botvinnik's iron logic
- The style of Ulf Andersson
- A light initiative weighs heavily
- The Andersson endgame
- Strategical endgames
- Ponomariov's technique
- Kramnik's power play
- One special theory
- The Steinitzian method of restriction
- Reflectors
- Characteristics of reflectors
- Good feeling for harmony and coordination
- Karpov's coordination
- Active prophylaxis
- Petrosian's prophylaxis
- Petrosian's king
- Dominance and restriction methods
- Karpov's space advantage
- Computer technique
- Strategic initiative and power play
- Attack with opposite-coloured bishops
- Petrosian's bishops
- Petrosian's pawn wave
- Strategic endgames
- Karpov's knight magic
- The Carlsen endgame
- Pragmatics
- Characteristics of pragmatics
- Concrete approach
- Fischer's knight sacrifice
- Fischer's attack on the wings
- Advantages and disadvantages of concrete play
- MVL's missed win against Carlsen
- Fischer's initiative
- Fischer's pseudo activity
- The calculation of variations
- Caruana's calculation power
- Good practical decisions
- Counterplay counts
- Making the game more difficult and complex 1
- Making the game more difficult and complex 2
- Pragmatics like to grab material
PROPERTIES
| Language: | English |
| Level: | advanced, tournament player, professional |
SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS
Minimum: | Computer: Dual Core |
Recommended: | Processor: PC Intel i5 (Quadcore) |
ChessBase Account: | Internet access and modern web browser, e.g. Chrome, Edge, Safari. |
| Language | English |
|---|---|
| Level | Advanced, Tournament player, Professional |
| Year | 2021 |
| Streaming | No |
| Author | Engel, Luis, Müller, Karsten |
| Language | English |
|---|---|
| Level | Advanced, Tournament player, Professional |
| Year | 2021 |
| Streaming | No |
| Author | Engel, Luis, Müller, Karsten |
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