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Subject: Re: The latest truth on chess ?

Author: Otello Gnaramori

Date: 06:48:54 07/09/01

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On July 09, 2001 at 03:49:50, Tanya Deborah wrote:

>On July 09, 2001 at 02:46:04, Mark Young wrote:
>
>>On July 08, 2001 at 19:37:21, Gordon Rattray wrote:
>>
>>>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!

Hi Tanya,
I think that the last point is by Mark, not Gordon.

Regards.




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