An appreciation of Aron Nimzowitsch

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> 3. I know this is very controversial take but in my opinion My system is not a great book to learn chess from. I've never seen a game of chess won by chess prophylaxis.

There is a conceptual lineage for Prophylaxis :
Nimzowitsch -> Influences Tigran Petrosian (Python style to draw)-> Influences Anatoly Karpov (Python style to win)

An important interview hinting at this influence is the Gibraltar Interview of Karpov:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=mPd1VdtAkOM&t=795s

See: 13:15 where Petrosian is mentioned

ok and thanks .

Dear Kingcrusher, you forgot to mention "The Praxis of my System" by Aaron Nimzowitsch. Nota Bene: I got that book first in a Spanish edition ("La práctica de mi sistema", translated from the German version by Julio Ganzo). I am a Chilean subject so my native language is Spanish and I got "My System" in an updated edition from a Spanish Editorial. These books are the foundation of hypermodern school of chess.

@Batman_18 said in #23:
> Dear Kingcrusher, you forgot to mention "The Praxis of my System" by Aaron Nimzowitsch. Nota Bene: I got that book first in a Spanish edition ("La práctica de mi sistema", translated from the German version by Julio Ganzo). I am a Chilean subject so my native language is Spanish and I got "My System" in an updated edition from a Spanish Editorial. These books are the foundation of hypermodern school of chess.

That is a better book title than "Chess Praxis" - it would have leveraged the success more of "My system" if it had been named that consistently in different countries etc.

I mentioned: "Chess Praxis" - originally published in German in 1929 and was purchased by future World chess champion Tigran Petrosian."

I think this is the same book you are talking about.

@Hagredion said in #15:
> I've never seen a game of chess won by prophalaxis
Karpov??????

somebody link an actual game so far I haven't seen one yet.

Great article! I never had as much fun reading a chess book as with My System. Nimzowitsch never runs out of jokes and anecdotes, sprinkled in at exactly the right points, which makes his concepts particularly memorable.

@Hagredion said in #26:
> somebody link an actual game so far I haven't seen one yet.

Karjakin - Anand 2016

good opening prep + black blundered with Ba6

If you have not seen an actual game where prophalaxis won, you clearly have not seen karpov's best games.