Congrats on finding a hero to worship. Some of the play you're describing sounds to me like what Kraii would deem "fancy chess" — he typically means this pejoritavely, but then we ask ourselves the famous Shankland question: what if we do fancy chess anyways?
The Shankland question is an important part of playing an "impossible" move - the idea crosses your mind and the Shankland question helps you resist crossing it off the list of options until you analyze it further. Jesse's style leans away from fancy chess, and he's right about it from an objective point of view - there's no real benefit to taking greater risks to produce a more beautiful finish if a prosaic one is available. The choice for fancy finishes cost Spassky dearly at certain points in his career, but in some ways that makes what he did accomplish all the more impressive.
Beautifully written, thank you!
Congrats on finding a hero to worship. Some of the play you're describing sounds to me like what Kraii would deem "fancy chess" — he typically means this pejoritavely, but then we ask ourselves the famous Shankland question: what if we do fancy chess anyways?
The Shankland question is an important part of playing an "impossible" move - the idea crosses your mind and the Shankland question helps you resist crossing it off the list of options until you analyze it further. Jesse's style leans away from fancy chess, and he's right about it from an objective point of view - there's no real benefit to taking greater risks to produce a more beautiful finish if a prosaic one is available. The choice for fancy finishes cost Spassky dearly at certain points in his career, but in some ways that makes what he did accomplish all the more impressive.