everyone wanted to play like a Karpov or a Kasparov.
I wonder if there's a modern analog to this with how super GM styles have mostly converged. Trying to play like Magnus is as silly as trying to play like an engine. Even the most aggressive players (Nepo, Shak?, Rapport) aren't so wildly different in style.
Maybe the 2010-2020s version of this is bandwagoning onto popular theory, like all the Najdorf lines I know I'll never understand.
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I wonder if there's a modern analog to this with how super GM styles have mostly converged. Trying to play like Magnus is as silly as trying to play like an engine. Even the most aggressive players (Nepo, Shak?, Rapport) aren't so wildly different in style.
Maybe the 2010-2020s version of this is bandwagoning onto popular theory, like all the Najdorf lines I know I'll never understand.