Author: Baldomero Garcia, Jr.
Date: 23:30:54 06/10/00
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On June 10, 2000 at 17:58:11, Fernando Villegas wrote: >After the game I talked with Kasparov, Is it Kasparov or Karpov? >Then he explained tht enormous advantage of a player like him over a player like >me: >-I just have not neccesity to think, I know the patterns of thousands of >positions, I know without thinking what must be done, but you must think almost >everything, from move to move because you have not so much patterns. My thinking >processes begin just playing another GM..... This concept is well known. GMs dedicate a lot of time learning a lot of different patterns. IM Ziatdinov wrote a book called "GM-RAM" and he gives you positions that you must *memorize* and learn. He feels that if you learn all of them you'll be a GM of 2600 strength... but he also says that the road ahead is not an easy one. He gives you the positions, but doesn't tell you who is supposed to move or who is winning... and not only that, he doesn't give you the solutions... he just tells you where to look up the answers... he starts you off with endgame positions, then middlegame... and *all* the games are old... I think every position is pre-WWII. I thought it was an interesting concept. The question I have is, if he feels that if you learn all those positions and master them you should be 2600 strength GM... how come he's still an IM? Baldo.
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