Schuyler: Your Opponent is overrated improvers does that ring a bell

does that ring a bell

John Nunn challenges you to find beautiful tactical twists in current games and studies

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This series provides an ideal platform to study chess openings

Schuyler: Your Opponent is overrated improvers does that ring a bellWhich 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