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Subject: Re: more examples for search-based stupidity

Author: Thorsten Czub

Date: 11:45:32 06/14/98

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On June 14, 1998 at 10:51:37, Don Dailey wrote:
>We could simply use this definition:
>
>    Tactics:  Things we can directly calculate.
>
> Positional:  Things we must guess at.

>- Don

Strong chess players "calculate" positional stuff as good as tactical
stuff.
They can show with evidence and facts that the move was a positional
blunder.
You cannot call tactics SAVE and positonal things GUESSING.

Positional stuff can be transformed into material.
Tactical advantage is material.
Positional stuff is material transformed in something else.

Like Energy. Tactics is physic-laws on materia, positional is energy in
those processes.

But tactics are not more accurate than positional.
Both are as accurate.
Thats what MY opinion is over the years studying people like Seirawan,
Bronstein, Kosashvili or Kohlweyer/Schaefer fighting against the machine
I operated, or i watched them killing the machine.

How can you say a positional advantage is less real, just YOU are unable
to COUNT - better - bean-count - it accurate !

YOU are the problem. You cannot measure energy as good as measuring
mass.
Thats YOUR problem. Buy a new scales.



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