Aron Nimzowitsch

Aron Nimzowitsch^[1] (7 November 1886 – 16 March 1935) was a Jewish Latvian-born Danish chess grandmaster, and a very influential chess writer. He was the foremost figure amongst the hypermoderns.

"As a player he ranked third in the world... from about 1925 to 1930; as an innovator he founded the hypermodern school of chess; as a writer of instructional books he was unrivalled in his time".^[2]p272

Aron Nimzowitsch
Born	(1886-11-07)7 November 1886 Riga, Latvia, Russian Empire
Died	16 March 1935(1935-03-16) (aged 48) Copenhagen, Denmark
Citizenship	Denmark
Occupation	Chess player
Notable work	My System

He wrote an important text on chess strategy called My system: a chess treatise, which is still highly regarded. It is a foundation of modern positional chess, and has been read by most chess masters since then.^[3] In it he reacted against the more classical views of Siegbert Tarrasch. Later he wrote Chess praxis (1929), a collection of his games showing his ideas in practice.

Nimzowitsch was the subject of a chess biography by English grandmaster Ray Keene,^[4] which was translated into Russian in 1986.

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• Hypermodern