I was a third-category chess player when I came up with a fruitful opening idea - the idea of a variation that was to turn the whole of chess theory upside down.
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It is now called the Latsis attack.
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All this was already in the game Tarrasch - Marko, Dresden, 1892
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The theory of the royal gambit is especially full of sound names. Just take the Muzio Gambit alone - what is there not to see here!
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The Muzio Gambit cannot be played andante, like a Chopin Nocturne; this devilish gambit should be played allegro furioso, like the first movement of a sonata pathetique!
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Dr. Lasker, who was to foresee my future, to determine my chess destiny, lived in our city at the time.
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It was then that Lasker was finally convinced that he was looking at a real chess player and asked me if I had any of my own opening developments.
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Lasker asks me what I think of this position. I answer that Black is in a bad position because he has weakened his queen's side and is behind in development.
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But I want to give you one little piece of advice. Turn the board around. Look at the position from the other side.
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Lasker identified the main thing: do I have a purely chess gift? In other words, do I have independent chess thinking?
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As for the “devil's gambit”, I managed to play the Muzio Gambit in a tournament game only once.