[chessmind] Dennis Monokroussos: Quotation Time #2: The Winner is...

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Posted by Dennis Monokroussos:
Quotation Time #2: The Winner is...
http://chessmind.powerblogs.com/posts/1205815238.shtml


   No one. (I did say it would be difficult!) Here's the quote again
   (first given in [1]this post):

     The first chess book that accidentally came into my hands with My
     System by Aron Nimzowitsch. It was hard to think of a worse choice!
     After all, in chess you must first learn to attack, and only then
     to defend, you must gain a mastery of tactics, and only then
     strategy. My System is a good book, only not for beginners. It is a
     textbook on positional play, and first you must learn to make
     combinations.

   Many might agree, and perhaps some have even said something similar,
   but the actual quotation is from Russian grandmaster, former Candidate
   and endgame writer par excellence Yuri Averbakh, from the brief
   autobiographical essay in [2]Averbakh's Selected Games (Cadogan,
   1998), p. 9.

References

   1. http://chessmind.powerblogs.com/posts/1205714150.shtml
   2. http://www.amazon.com/Averbakhs-Selected-Games-Yuri-Averbakh/dp/1857445481