Are the classics necessary?
„I am a big fan of Aron Nimzowitsch,“ writes IM Zoran Petronijevic, who works as a chess trainer and lives in Nis (Serbia). „In yesterday’s game Firouzja-Nepo, I found some ideas by him. We can often read that the study of the classical heritage of chess is completely unnecessary for advancing in chess, that the games of the classics are outdated, and that there is no (or almost no) benefit from them. I deeply disagree with that.“