The revolutionary Wilhelm Steinitz (1836-1900) considered himself
to be in the vanguard of an emerging, late-19th century 'Modern'
school, which embraced a new, essentially scientific vitality in
its methods of research, analysis, evaluation, planning, experiment
and even belligerent fight. Steinitz, who dominated the chess world
in the shadow of a more directly attacking, openly tactical and
combinative, so-called 'romantic' age, established a much firmer
positional basis to chess. A pivotal change! This book follows that
story, both before and beyond Steinitz's early 'modern' era,
focusing closely on the subtly varied ways in which the world's
greatest players in the last two centuries have thought about and
played the game, moving it forward. The author reflects on all
sixteen 'classical' world champions and others, notably: C-L. M. de
la Bourdonnais, Adolf Anderssen, Paul Morphy, Siegbert Tarrasch,
Aron Nimzowitsch, Richard Reti, Judit Polgar and the contemporary
Artificial Intelligence phenomenon, AlphaZero. Be inspired by this
exploration of the 'modern' game's roots and trajectory!
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