Unlock Your Chess Creativity

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Unlock Your Chess Creativity the English chess explosion of the 1970s lit the fuse for a golden era in the 1980s, when a wave of brilliant British players rose to the very

top of world chess. England became a major force in international competition, producing players who could stand head-to-head with the traditional superpowers of the game.

The movement culminated in Nigel Short’s World Championship challenge in 1993 — but its true legacy lay in the astonishing creativity of its leading lights.

Unlock Your Chess Creativity

This book celebrates the play and influence of Tony Miles, John Nunn, Jon Speelman, Nigel Short, Michael Adams and Matthew Sadler,

all of whom achieved world class status. Although all of them had a very clear understanding of the principles of classical chess they all very much ploughed

their own creative furrows. Their extraordinary creativity created immense practical problems for even the strongest opponents and gave rise to some of

the most memorable games of the modern era. As well as featuring numerous amazing games, this book will demonstrate how you can harness some of

this creativity and introduce it into your own play.

Harness the creativity of the strongest English players

Richard Palliser is an International Master and the editor of CHESS Magazine. In 2006 he became co-British Rapidplay Champion and in 2019 finished third in the

British Championship. He has established a reputation as a skilled chess writer and written many works for Popular Chess, including the bestselling The Complete Chess Workout.

Unlock Your Chess Creativity

During the world championship match between Ding Liren and Dommaraju Gukesh, I was fortunate to spend a game commentating together with the great Armenian

player Levon Aronian. Batting away my sometimes interesting but mostly dubious suggestions with impressive ease, he suddenly smiled and said,

“You know, apart from Mickey [Michael Adams], all the British players just play for tricks!” I opened my mouth instinctively to protest before half a second’s reflection

made me realise that this was the most apposite one-line summary of the British chess scene that I’d ever heard! I’ll have to nuance the word ‘tricks’ somewhat by suggesting

that most of the strongest British players of this generation were attracted to finding tactical exceptions in normal positions and that each of

them had a personal approach to achieving this.

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