chess-The Oxford Companion to Chess - First Edition by David Hooper & Kenneth Whyld

346 TARTAKOWER ATTACK
seNed him no better. Many of his inventio.s were
onsidered bizare, fte rate ol nost new ideas, bu1
some. c.g. thc rARrAxowER vARrAroN oI the
Oueen\ Gambit Declined and the ,^nr^kowER
c(, hare becone srandard play, and be
^r pioneered a revival oi the DucD DETENCE. He was
also one ol the besl cndgamc playcrc of bis
gcncration. Besideshisma.ywrilingson cbessand
other strbjecis T iakower wrore poens in French,
Gernin, and Russian. ln many ways he was an
ddnirable man (all speak of his nigh principlcs.
honest dcaling.s. and eene.osity), but he had a
weakness lor gambline. Perhaps his ertedsive'
literary ourpul was pronpted by tnc need lo
finan@ his betring. His bcst book is probably Dr
hlpernodun. Schachpartie \1924-5), and hn besl
books in the English langna