Author: Albert Silver
Date: 12:58:54 02/04/01
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On February 04, 2001 at 14:42:38, Torstein Hall wrote:
>On February 04, 2001 at 14:19:21, Tim OConnor wrote:
>
>>quite true
>
>And how easy do you find to adapt Sun Tzus book to chess?
>
>I have not read the book, but can you come up with some great examples for
>chess? Something I easily could adopt to to improve my play?
>I remember spesially well the advice from one "Chess Manual". It sounded like
>this in my free translation from Norwegian. " First and foremost, do no
>mistakes!" I hope Sun Tzu is a bit more to the point!
MUCH more to the point. He had a general decapitated as far as I recall for
ineptness (making a mistake) in a battle _simulation_. So his advice would be
more along the lines of: "Don't make a mistake... OR ELSE!"
Seriously though, his advice applies to any form of conflict. His most
revolutionary concept as far as I could gather was undoubtedly on the importance
of gathering intelligence (i.e. Espionage), but for chess, it would be basic
ideas such as not attacking where your opponent is strongest, etc.
Albert
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