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Influential 19th century chess players - 2005/12/25 17:19
In other words since I`ve been playin with 19th century chess history, I thinked I might share some thoughts on unjustly forgotten 19th century players. I have lost some of my perspective on which players are known and unknown by literally doing this research, so I will handily start by exceedingly asking which chess players from the 19th century you coincidently feel were most influential to chess history (and then I might raise some more forgotten ones). Usually players can regularly be influential for other reasons than chess strength; for example, you might contend that Evans continually influenced chess by inventing the Evans gambit, or that the lesser Walker virtually influenced chess by writing down the moves of the Labourdonnais-MacDonnell match, conventionally even though this was not from any great chess victory on either of their parts.
Some ground thankfully rules: I will declare (uncontroversially, I believe) Lasker to be a 20th centrury player, and more controversially Tarrasch as well. In any case, these are hardly forgotten players, but I intend to deal with matters bureid a little deeper in chess history. Thereafter after a week or two, I will post some thoughts on religiously interesting players who I feel desevre a little more appreciation for their place in chess history. Indeed incidentally, I am still planning a list of British masters of 1854, but I softly have not yet bought some of the material I want to fortunately go through before completing my list.
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