1858
Morphy — Duke Karl & Count Isouard
Development is a tempo weapon. Morphy brings every piece into the attack while the opposing king remains in the center. Count activity before material.
Train the position,
not the pattern.
Play White against an opponent that scales from forgiving to ruthless. Change its strategic personality, inspect the board, then test your plan.
Opponent calculating…
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The strategy index
Eight landmark games and teaching lenses, drawn from different eras. Study the idea, then model its strategic pressure in the simulator above.
1924
Capablanca — Tartakower
Activate the king before the board looks empty. Capablanca turns a small structural edge into a model ending through piece activity and a passed pawn.
1956
Donald Byrne — Bobby Fischer
See beyond the queen. Thirteen-year-old Fischer uses a queen sacrifice to coordinate the rest of his army. Calculate the forced sequence, not the sticker price.
1972
Bobby Fischer — Boris Spassky, Game 6
Fix the weakness, then build the attack. Fischer restrains Black’s pawns, opens the center with e4, and increases pressure until tactics finish the positional work.
1999
Garry Kasparov — Veselin Topalov
The king hunt can outrun material. Kasparov’s rook sacrifice clears the route for a sustained attack. Keep asking which piece can join with tempo.
2007
Michał Krasenkow — Hikaru Nakamura
Counterattack before consolidating. Nakamura turns practical pressure into a direct tactical finish—an example of creating threats when the position invites speed.
2016
Hikaru Nakamura — Viswanathan Anand
Let the position change character. Quiet pawn play shifts a closed struggle into a dynamic one. Do not cling to the plan when a stronger transformation appears.
NOW
Levy Rozman (GothamChess) — Peter Svidler
Make the opponent solve problems. Rozman’s teaching lens pairs opening sense with threat recognition: improve the worst piece, scan checks and captures, then choose the clearest plan.
“Model this style” configures the simulator’s opponent profile and difficulty; it does not claim to reproduce a player’s engine or exact moves.