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Subject: Re: General efficiency question

Author: James Swafford

Date: 10:15:11 04/23/02

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On April 23, 2002 at 10:44:24, Russell Reagan wrote:

>On April 23, 2002 at 07:38:38, maria clara benedicto wrote:
>
>>just a guess....
>>
>>                          "chess is 90% tactics..."
>>
>>right? c.theron?
>>
>>regards
>>
>>maria clara benedicto
>
>That was not Knuth's statment. I don't know who said chess is 90% tactics. It's
>really 100% tactics theoretically, but in practicallity there is some degree of
>positional and strategical influences that we have created for our shortcomings
>in tactical ability.

Nice way of putting it... I have felt that way for a long time.
After all, there is no "positional score" in a tablebase.  So imagine
a 32 man tablebase. :)


>
>>
>>On April 22, 2002 at 10:27:49, Russell Reagan wrote:
>>
>>>On April 22, 2002 at 03:32:44, Peter McKenzie wrote:
>>>
>>>>You know what Knuth said ...
>>>
>>>No, I don't know what Knuth said. What did he say?



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