Author: Uri Blass
Date: 06:45:56 05/10/04
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On May 10, 2004 at 08:48:34, martin fierz wrote: >On May 10, 2004 at 08:11:34, Sune Fischer wrote: > >>On May 10, 2004 at 07:33:38, martin fierz wrote: >> >>>there are instances where pushing pawns in front of your king is ok. there are >>>others where it's not ok. they are rather easy to distinguish most of the time >>>(some simple rules are sufficient for this) and i'm surprised that you don't >>>understand that it's not such a great idea here... >> >>Rules of thumb are good but not great, there are always exceptions and computers >>are experts at finding them. It is possible that all other moves simply lose >>faster. > >if you read the entire thread you would see the issue is not the move ...g5 at >all. as has been said before, but you obviously didn't read, kasparov himself >said that ...g5 was necessary to keep black in the game. >the point i was trying to make is that if black has to resort to such moves, it >is clear he did something wrong *before*. > >>>i know you are a born >>>skeptic, but perhaps you should learn to trust people with more experience >>>sometimes :-) >> >>Sometimes, but maybe not this time ;) >>Just look at the thread below >>http://www.talkchess.com/forums/1/message.html?364474 > >this is totally irrelevant. you have to distinguish between concrete analysis, >where there can always be mistakes by humans, and general assessments, such as >"if black has to play ....g5 here he's in bad shape". the second is true unless >disproved by a concrete variation which doesn't seem to exist here. general assessment can also be wrong. general assessment is result of experience and it is possible that the experience is misleading because the position that you look at is slightly different than the positions that your experience is based on them and the difference may mean that instead of having bad position you have better position. I think that you need concrete lines also when you talk about positional evaluation. Of course in case of positional evaluation you cannot have a forced line but you can have some logical lines that demonstrates that white get the advantage. Uri
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