prize13-5, Exercise 2: Structure against attack

Model answer (check the details):

Philidor stressed the pawns: his view was that the pawn structure decides the shape of the game, and that the pieces should support the pawns and pawn breaks. The Romantic style, associated with Anderssen and the mid-nineteenth century, prized rapid attack and brilliant sacrifices, often from gambit openings, and admired a beautiful sacrifice more than a quiet advantage.

A historian should be careful with "Romantic" because it is a label applied later, and because our picture of the style comes from the games that were published and collected in anthologies. Those were mostly the brilliant ones, so the label can exaggerate how reckless players were. Strong players of the time also played sound positional chess.

Care: both Philidor and the Romantics are summarised here by the usual account, which is simplified.