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Subject: Re: since when

Author: Wayne Lowrance

Date: 17:58:26 07/13/00

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On July 13, 2000 at 15:15:44, Albert Silver wrote:

>On July 13, 2000 at 15:06:51, Wayne Lowrance wrote:
>
>>Since when is it not considered not proper and winning chess to play
>>conservative, positional chess waiting for a mistake ?
>
>Topalov said as much. When asked what he thought of the tremendous
>investigations of previous generations of great playerson certain chess truths
>(absolute and relative values of material, analysis of certain structures,
>etc...), he responded he thought they were fascinating, but nowadays it was
>sufficient to play correctly and wait for the opponent to err.
>
>Still, I didn't understand the relevance of the statement with regard to Deep
>Junior's play. What thread were you responding to?
>
>                                       Albert Silver
>


Good point Albert. I was not responding to any one particuliar thread. It is
just a overall feeling that I have that many here expect too much from Jr and
seem to be dissapointed in the draws with  the notion that it could have won a
game here or there by pressing !
Wayne


>>Deep jr's records is
>>terrific in my view. Geeze Jr is playing the big boys now and in my view holding
>>is own at the very worst. My congrats to Amir
>>
>>Wayne



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