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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