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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