Daniil Dubov’s fantastic knowledge of chess classics!

We all know that talented Russian youngster Daniil Dubov is an excellent opening theoretician, but did you know he has some of the amazing opening ideas not from computer analysis but from study the classics. Dubov has read all the books by Garry Kasparov, mainly the “My Great Predecessors“ series more than ten times! At the opening ceremony of the Tal Memorial 2018 we pose him with some positions from Tal’s games that are quite famous. Dubov breezes through them not only showing the best move but also wh