Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 14:19:49 06/14/98
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On June 14, 1998 at 14:45:32, Thorsten Czub wrote: >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. It's trivial, and your argument against it is weak. A backward pawn is a common positional consideration. But *if* I can search deeply enough to see that (A) I can trade the pawn (B) it is useful to block a file or diagonal for a critical instant or (C) something else, then your positional (mis)understanding whill haunt you and help me... because you are using a general principle that says "backward pawns are bad" while I ignore that and simply search to see how it ends up. Tactics are *absolute* to a program. If it sees mate, it is *mate*. On the other hand, positional terms are simply scientific will-ass guesses, that may or may not work out as we expect. That's true of *any* positional term. Even something nearly invincible as having two rooks *and* a queen on your opponent's 7th rank. And getting mated yourself because none of them can get back at the critical instant to defend what needs defending...
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