Schuyler: Your Opponent is overrated CT so that the surprise factor

so that the surprise factor has lost some of its importance

14 The Tower Attack

one of the most popular chess players in the world

did not want to embarrass himself

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

Schuyler: Your Opponent is overrated CT so that the surprise factorWhich 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