Subject: Re: Prototype chessmasters for THE DEFENSE
In a message dated 10/17/2003 2:58:02 PM Eastern Daylight
Time, chtodel@cox.net
writes:
gifted if erratic Aleksandr Aleksandrovich
Alekhin
Alekhine, though
one of the greatest chess players, was an egomaniacal paranoid alcoholic. In
addition his playing does not show the beautiful, balanced echoing attributed to
Luzhin, whereas Rubinstein's does. Likewise with Morphy, a brilliant (19th
century) combinational player but not a positional (Apollonian) player like
Luzhin. Bardeleben, on the other hand, seems with Rubinstein, to fit into the
mosaic.