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Aron Nimzowitsch was born in Riga on 7th November 1886, the son of a well off Jewish family. It was his father who taught him the royal game, and Nimzowitsch played with passion and a certain success from his early childhood.
Nimzowitsch went to Germany in 1904 to study philosophy, but soon Caissa cast her spell on him. Aron Nimzowitsch participated in the Coburg Hauptturnier in 1904. This became the beginning of a long and glorious carrier as a professional chess player, which was to last for more than 30 years.
Aron Nimzowitsch was the founder of Hypermodernism. He was a renewer, and he wanted to be recognized as such. He demanded that the chess world should recognize his system as an improvement on the current style. But the chess world saw the newcomer through the glasses of the Tarrasch School, and they could not see any new method, and they did not want to see it either. They claimed that Nimzowitsch games were peculiar, and his style, bizarre.
In 1922 Nimzowitsch settled in Copenhagen for the rest of his live. Nimzowitsch above all became the chess teacher for the Danish chess life, and we owe him thanks for what he did.
Nimzowitsch never managed to get a match for the world title. He had the bad luck to reach his peak in the same period as Alekhine, who secured a match against Capablanca and won. I doubt, despite his genius, that Nimzowitsch could have done the same, but as a teacher, he was the world champion.
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