CLEARANCE - The 4 Player Types Standard Model - GM Luis Engel & GM Karsten Müller New Italian Luxury Chess Boards Lesson 8: Relative values of

Lesson 8: Relative values of the chess forces

becoming a GM thereafter

Mikhail Botvinnik once said “It is of absolute importance to examine and understand your own games”

Ilya Odessky will entertain

CLEARANCE - The 4 Player Types Standard Model - GM Luis Engel & GM Karsten Müller New Italian Luxury Chess Boards Lesson 8: Relative values ofPlaying styles in chess are an important and thus often discussed topic. GM Dr. Karsten Mller and GM Luis Engel take up a model by GM Lars Bo Hansen based on 4 player types namely activists, pragmatics, theoreticians and so called reflectors. Their respective strengths and weaknesses are explained with the help of many examples, enabling the reader to try and assign himself or herself to one or the other player type. In the context of preparing for my