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Junta Ikeda's avatar

Hey Sam, great post. The typifying players is also fascinating, do you remember where Dvoretsky mentioned this one? Where would you put yourself on the plane?

Sam Asaka's avatar

Also just realized I forgot to address the second part - probably more positional/conceptual! From what I've seen in your chess I might guess you'd put yourself as more dynamic/concrete?

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Cheers Junta! I actually picked it up from Aagaard in his book 'Thinking Inside the Box', where he referenced it from Dvoretsky. IIRC it was under the chapter of 'Who are you?', if I'm not mistaken.

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Yep found it, nice! I like Lars Bo Hansen's similar one from his Foundations of Chess Strategy book too, Intuition vs. Logic.

Re style, I thought you might be that one haha. And yeah you're probably right for me