tarrasch won more strong tournaments in the 1890s than any other player, and drew a 22-game match against mikhail chigorin, the leading russian player. tarrasch was also an influential chess writer, who summarised the chess ideas of the 1890s. it was his ideas against which the hypermoderns reacted in the early 1920s.&lt;ref name="h/w"&gt;hooper d. and whyld k. 1992. "the oxford companion to chess". 2nd ed, oxford.&lt;/ref&gt;p411