Aron Nimzowitsch
Latvian-born Danish chess player and theoretician / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Aron Nimzowitsch[1] (7 November 1886 – 16 March 1935) was a Jewish Latvian-born Danish chess grandmaster, and a very influential chess writer. He was the foremost figure amongst the hypermoderns.
- "As a player he ranked third in the world... from about 1925 to 1930; as an innovator he founded the hypermodern school of chess; as a writer of instructional books he was unrivalled in his time".[2]p272
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Aron Nimzowitsch | |
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Born | (1886-11-07)7 November 1886 |
Died | 16 March 1935(1935-03-16) (aged 48) Copenhagen, Denmark |
Citizenship | Denmark |
Occupation | Chess player |
Notable work | My System |
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He wrote an important text on chess strategy called My system: a chess treatise, which is still highly regarded. It is a foundation of modern positional chess, and has been read by most chess masters since then.[3] In it he reacted against the more classical views of Siegbert Tarrasch. Later he wrote Chess praxis (1929), a collection of his games showing his ideas in practice.
Nimzowitsch was the subject of a chess biography by English grandmaster Ray Keene,[4] which was translated into Russian in 1986.