Author: Miguel A. Ballicora
Date: 08:11:00 03/13/02
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On March 13, 2002 at 10:00:43, Sune Fischer wrote: >On March 12, 2002 at 14:02:25, Robert Hyatt wrote: > >>And if you understand majorities, and weak squares, and endgame concepts like >>split passers and weak pawns, then you are not going to be a _weak_ chess player >>yourself, except for the lack of tactical skills commonly caused by not playing >>enough OTB. > >I disagree, in a way your are only as good as your worst move. >Most players believe they have very good positional understanding, and when they >lose a game it is certainly _never_ because the they where outplayed on the >positional level ;) Many times yes, but they did not know they were outplayed at a positional level. >It is very easy to learn all the basic ideas of pawnstructure, king safety pawn >races etc., the hard part is knowing when to break the rules, when to defend, >when to attact and when you have sufficient compensation for e.g. material loss >etc... Exactly. >This all relates closely to tactics, you only need 1 good line in the tree to >make it work. Not always, there are deep positional concepts that are totally unknown to lesser players. Many times look like an exception to a rule, but actually is more related to accumulated experience over a century and an advanced pattern recognition from the strong player. Those are the kind of games where the stronger player knows that there will be a won endgame even in the opening. In those games, the stronger player do not even sweat and the lesser player wonders "what kind of mistake I did from moves 40 to 50?". Well, the main mistake was in move 12. Regards, Miguel > >-S.
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