Author: Don Dailey
Date: 20:47:40 07/21/98
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-------------- Lot's of snipping ----------------- >>>no.. you miss the point. There is *nothing* that says that a GM can't >>>"play his own game." Nothing at all. Forget Kasparov. He followed bad >>>advice, practiced against Fritz thinking it was preparing him for Deep Blue, >>>and he got just what he deserved. But did you watch Anand vs Fritz? Anand >>>didn't "play weird chess".. he just didn't let Fritz have a chance tactically. >>> >>>That's quite different from what you are thinking, I'm afraid. You seem to >>>be assuming that avoiding an open position means giving up too much. I'm >>>saying that a GM can *do both*. Avoid tactics *and* play his own game. Anand >>>proved it against Fritz. Let's watch against Rebel then continue this... >> >>You are missing the point, not me. I AGREE with your point, you >>completely ignore mine. >> >>Your point is that Anand is skillful enough to avoid tactics *and* >>play his own game. This is not the point I was making. >> >>I will have to resort to a more extreme example. Let's say that >>I magically developed the amazing ability to win EVERY game where >>my opponent castles king side. But in every other way I did not >>improve at all. When you played against me, you would eventually >>learn that you could never EVER castle king side. I can imagine >>you saying, "Oh, that's no problem, I'll just never castle king >>side!" Do you see the problem? Even though you have managed >>to avoid my strengths, I still have extracted an advantage from >>this ability. You might argue that you are good enough to beat >>me anyway, but that is a completely different point. And it's >>not the point I am arguing. >> >>- Don > > >I don't see the problem. Because if you can win every game where I castle >kingside, and I figure this out, I take one or two extra moves and castle >queen-side. And I roll your program up into a small wad. So such a band-aid >won't cut it against a GM player. It would only work *if* you could win every >such game, and *if* you could also punish me for taking 1-2 extra moves to make >way to castle queen-side. Ok, I concede. - Don
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