Nimzovich was the man who revolutionized modern chess. Disregarding many of the most strongly entrenched analyses of the past, he approached the game with new insights and evolved many positional studies based on unusual and deceptived principles. He was, as is true of most innovators, met with a solid wall of opposition by the advocates of traditional play until it became obvious that Nimzovich was winning and winning brilliantly against the finest exponents of the older style. Since then his play has been acknowledged to be among the very finest of this century and its influence of chess theory can hardly be exaggerated.