Author: Laurence Chen
Date: 15:25:06 02/04/01
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On February 04, 2001 at 15:58:54, Albert Silver wrote: >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 In the so called simulation, Sun Tzu used the Emperor's concubines to demonstrate his philosophy of warfare, the appointed woman desobeyed his order and he had the woman decapitated because to make sure that the remaining women would take seriously his orders. This was necessary in order to bring discipline and obedience among the women. Afterwards, the women followed his order without any errors. Regards, Laurence
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