Book1925
My System
Aron Nimzowitsch
Systematises positional chess — blockade, overprotection, prophylaxis — and reshaped how the game is taught.
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Games, Strategy & Play · Chess
Positional Play
A topic within Chess, itself one of 10 topics in that field and part of Games, Strategy & Play.
Reading on Positional Play
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Book1889
The Modern Chess Instructor
Wilhelm Steinitz
Argues that a sound position cannot be broken by direct attack until the defender has already accumulated small, identifiable weaknesses, founding positional theory on the systematic evaluation of an advantage rather than on tactical inspiration.
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