Author: Uri Blass
Date: 23:37:18 08/19/00
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On August 20, 2000 at 02:04:12, stuart taylor wrote: >On August 19, 2000 at 01:46:04, Uri Blass wrote: > >>On August 18, 2000 at 23:18:24, Christophe Theron wrote: >> >><snipped> >>>It's true I'm lousy at chess, but just because I can't "compute" fast enough. >> >>I do not think that this is the reason. >> >>I think that the problem is that you did not learn to compute the right lines. >>Better human players know better to search the right lines and this is the >>reason that with the same number of nodes per move they do not give away their >>pieces. >> >>Uri > >Do you mean that part of being good at chess is to avoid complicated positions? >(which could be called "wrong lines"?) >S.Taylor No I think that part of being a good player is to know to search the right lines. Weak players often do not see 1 ply move in their search because they do not search the right lines. I believe that doing a 1 ply search is possible in tournament time control and I believe that it is important for weak players to try to do it in order not to miss important lines. Not missing a good move of yourself or a good move of your opponent in the first ply after your move is important. Doing one ply search can also give good ideas for the next plies and I believe that weak players can get at least 200 elo improvement if they remember to do one ply search of their moves and also one ply search of the opponents move before they play their planned move. You have an average of 3 minutes per move at tournament time control and you can devote the rest of yout time for thinking in the regular way. Uri
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