Genius – Intuition – Defend – Calm – Emotional

AGGRESSIVEPOSITIONAL
LOOK FOR IMPERFECTIONSIMPROVE
INTUITIONCALCULATION
EMOTIONALCALMED DOWN

GENIUS

These players seem to decide their moves by pure guessing. With little to no calculation, they decide where to place their pieces and then simply place them there. You could say that you feel the pulse of the position. His combinations are generally short, simple, but they transform the game in a deadly way. They do not look for complications and therefore draw many games, but rarely lose. Sometimes it seems that he is bored with chess, but this is actually an illusion, he cares more about the game than anyone else.

Recommended Openings:

White: Ruy Lopez

Black: Ruy López, Queen's Gambit Refused

Example:

capablanca personalidad genio

José Raúl Capablanca (1888-1942) of Cuba, the third world champion, was a prototypical genius. Preferring solid, positional play and excelling in the final games. Capablanca had a simple and clear style and often chose his movements by pure intuition. Capablanca was so difficult to beat that he only lost 34 serious games as an adult and was undefeated from 1916 to 1924.

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