Lakdawala/Hansen: Chess Opening Origins; Ruy Lopez Book III: Main Lines after 3...a6 CT He was a chess writer

He was a chess writer for the legendary blog Chess Vibes and Chess

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one of the elite Soviet grandmasters of his time

Lakdawala/Hansen: Chess Opening Origins; Ruy Lopez Book III: Main Lines after 3...a6 CT He was a chess writerMeistere die Ruy Lopez Von Marshall Gambit bis Chigorin Variante Today's openings are reruns of an old sitcom that we have all seen a hundred times before, while for players in the past, life on the chess board was wild, unexplored territory. Learning the details of that gigantic entity, the Ruy Lopez (from either side), is on par with the time that hateful 7th grade teacher made us memorize the capital cities of every country in the world in