Tal-like players that were not relatively known.

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Tal-like players that were not relatively known.

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Looking for suggestions of players that played like Tal,Nezhmetdinov, etc.
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Eichborn
Some say he was not as strong as the results say (probably true).
But look at his games. They are Morphy like.
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Did he only save his best games.
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Current Generation, I think I would put GM Simon Williams and GM Maxime Vachier-Lagrave on the list.
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That's the conjecture. Probably a reasonable one. At any rate, the games we do have recorded are fantastic. It was not just Eichborn who recorded his games, there are a number of them in the chess publications of the time.

Marvelous games. I am surprised we don't hear more about him like we do about Paul Morphy or Mir Sultan Khan or some of the other prodigies.
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Dann Corbit wrote:That's the conjecture. Probably a reasonable one. At any rate, the games we do have recorded are fantastic. It was not just Eichborn who recorded his games, there are a number of them in the chess publications of the time.

Marvelous games. I am surprised we don't hear more about him like we do about Paul Morphy or Mir Sultan Khan or some of the other prodigies.
I had not heard of Louis Eichborn until you mentioned him, and for that I am grateful Dann. I was able to locate 36 of his games on the chessgames.com site.

http://www.chessgames.com/player/louis_eichborn.html
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