Author: Roy Eassa
Date: 08:51:27 02/13/04
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On February 13, 2004 at 11:01:41, Tord Romstad wrote: >On February 13, 2004 at 09:13:44, Uri Blass wrote: > >>On February 13, 2004 at 08:34:41, Tord Romstad wrote: >> >>>Actually, this could be said about Go as well. The difference is that in >>>Go, tactics rarely decide the game if the difference in strength between >>>the two players is big. In games between players of similar strength, >>>Go can be tactically extremely complicated (even more so than chess, I >>>would say). >>> >>>Tord >> >>What is the definition of tactics? >>You can say that everything is tactics if you search deep enough. > >You are right, if you search deeply enough, everything is tactics. I >define tactics as what is concrete and shallow enough that it is >possible *in practice* to understand everything well by concrete >brute-force calculations. This is, of course, only a relative >definition. > >Go games between strong players of similar strengths are often decided >by very long, complicated forced lines where both players repeatedly >have to make deep and precise calculations in order to find the right >moves. This is what I meant when I claimed that Go games can be very >tactically complicated. > You've said that eloquently. I'd like to hear your description of the NON-tactical aspects of Go as played by professionals. >Tord
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