Talk:Siegbert Tarrasch

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Some Changes[edit]

Added "most influential chess teacher" to intro.

In Chess Career, made style changes, added cites and anecdote re "check and mate." Even if aprocryphal, it's a cool story!

Comments welcome.

Eldred 07:01, 27 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Play Versus Teachings[edit]

This is one of my favorite chess articles, despite its brevity, for the following two lines alone;

He was a great target of the hypermodern school, led by Richard Réti, Aron Nimzowitsch, and Savielly Tartakower, all of whom criticized his ideas as dogmatic. However, many modern masters regard Tarrasch's actual play as not dogmatic.

Finally, someone who gets it. The best way to judge the playing strength and style of an old master is not by some stodgy, over-simplified assessment of their skill in an old book written by a weaker player, but by actually looking at their games Anyways, I agree tremendously with this assessment of Tarrasch's play, and was shocked it was actually noted in the Wikipedia article, fearing that people would go by his overly dogmatic chess writings. (Ostensibly written for much weaker, beginning players)

Whoever wrote the lines above certainly has my respect and gratitude. — Preceding unsigned comment added by ChessPlayerLev (talk • contribs) 11:13, 17 January 2012 (UTC)[reply]

ChessPlayerLev (talk) 11:13, 17 January 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Sources[edit]

Capablanca on San Sebastián, 1912 --Philcha (talk) 14:29, 2 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Wrong statistics[edit]

Tarrasch had a narrow plus score against Harry Nelson Pillsbury of +6-5=2, while Lasker was even +5-5=4.

Augsburg 1900 was a casual game, in tournament games Lasker had a plus score +5-4=4 against Pillsbury, too. How can one trust in rubbish like "chessgames.com"? Poor Wikipedia! — Preceding unsigned comment added by 37.138.43.139 (talk) 21:48, 13 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Vienna 1898 tournament[edit]

This article does not mention the 1898 Vienna tournament, which Tarrasch won and whcich was among his greatest achievments. Shouldn't that be included in here somewhere? 2001:9E8:6CC0:F200:450E:1DFB:5152:23E3 (talk) 07:01, 16 August 2023 (UTC)[reply]