Author: Tanya Deborah
Date: 00:49:50 07/09/01
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On July 09, 2001 at 02:46:04, Mark Young wrote: >On July 08, 2001 at 19:37:21, Gordon Rattray wrote: > >>On July 08, 2001 at 18:11:08, Otello Gnaramori wrote: >> >>>I would like to add this extract of a chat transcript with GM Michael Rhode on >>>the argument to clarify my previous point : >>> >>><snip> >>>Jeff: How well would you say solving tactics and mate problems improve one's >>>play? >>> >>>rohde: ok tactics are super important in general >>>rohde: in fact the saying that chess is 99% tactics really is true >>>rohde: most learning players make way too much about "this is the plan" or "i >>>dont like this because of doubled pawns" when they really should be thinking, " >>>if he does this, then what am i going to do ?" >>>rohde: mate problems are an exercise in tactics >>>rohde: that is why they are good >>>rohde: the idea is to figure out the problem and understand why the solution is >>>the solution >>>rohde: the positional themes, like "control the center", develop your pieces, >>>dont get a backward pawn, are easy to learn and not a problem >>>rohde: so i think mate problems are very good >>>rohde: GM dlugy's teacher, Zaltzman, many years ago, had him do hundreds of >>>problems every day >>><snip> >>> >>>The complete transcipt can be found here: >>>http://chess.about.com/games/chess/library/weekly/aa050399.htm >> >> >>Ok, what about Capablanca? He had great positional intuition and could often >>"feel" that a certain move was correct. This aided his calcuation and he became >>world champion. I still believe that chess is made up of many combined aspects, >>all of which are essential. > >“Feel” and "intuition" was also Capablanca’s Achilles heel. GM Alekhine Studying >GM Capablanca’s games for his match with the then world champ found that GM >Capablanca moves were good but not the best moves in many positions. GM Alekhine >discovered this by using his own brute calculating abilities. He used this >knowledge to defeat GM Capablanca and become World Champion himself. > >> >>Gordon Definitely sure Gordon!! You are completely right!
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