Author: stuart taylor
Date: 23:58:06 08/19/00
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On August 20, 2000 at 02:37:18, Uri Blass wrote: >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 With forward pruning!(a little bit) S.Taylor
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