Author: Torstein Hall
Date: 08:37:02 02/05/01
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On February 04, 2001 at 18:25:06, Laurence Chen wrote: >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 It do not sound so subtle to me this Sun Tzu, but I guess the teaching principles was a bit different at that time. :-) To me it sounds like Mao was one of the readers of his book. Great general, horrible teacher! And I do not think Mao played chess. Torstein
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