Schuyler: Your Opponent is overrated CT Whether for reference during practice

Whether for reference during practice games or simply for pleasure reading

095 Chapter 15: English Attack 6

15 The best years 1969–1973 185

Dieses Buch erzählt seine Geschichte und gewährt eine aufregende Sicht hinter die Kulissen der Schachwelt

14 The Tower Attack

Schuyler: Your Opponent is overrated CT Whether for reference during practiceWhich opening does better in practice: the wild, unsound and refuted Latvian Gambit (1 e4 e5 2 Nf3 f5) or the solid Philidor Defence (1 e4 e5 2 Nf3 d6)? As James Schuyler points out, referring to the definitive Megabase, the Latvian Gambit scores higher. How can such a discredited opening (and the same story is repeated with other unsound openings) do so well? The point is that playing like this throws the opponent off balance, makes them anxious and