Author: Shaley
Date: 01:37:12 09/06/05
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On September 05, 2005 at 13:08:14, Fernando Villegas wrote: >Well, how many times I have had the same surprise.....You feel you are winning, >you relax and then the sky fall over you. It is the speciality of artificial >chess players... >Yesterday I was playing old good Champion Sensory Challenger and I had a great >attack, a pretty attack, but I just relaxed a bit, satisfied wwith my genius, >and then the machine made a row of witty moves and I was compelled to squeeze my >brain to get a draw. >But, what a joy!!! >My best >Fernando To avoid being surprised over the board, keep remembrance of GM Richard Teichmann's statement "Chess is 90% tactical play." In other words, even 40 sound moves may not be enough to win a game and one bad move only is quite enough to lose a game. One should always be alert for possible tactical tricks, especially when playing a silicon monster or human tactical players like Shirov or Morozevich.
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