Author: Gordon Rattray
Date: 08:12:25 07/09/01
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On July 09, 2001 at 06:40:20, Otello Gnaramori 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. >> > >Exactly. How can you be sure about a crucial move if you didn't calculate >exactly all the variations coming in play. >The "feeling" or "intuition" is an heuristic tool , and in that sense is prone >to error. > >Regards. When I responded to the initial article, I was responding to an article with quotes such as: "Because Chess is ONLY moves in a chessboard,chess is only tactics." ""positional mistakes" simply don't exist: they are simply tactical errors with long term consequences" In my response, I agreed with this in theory but not in practice. My argument was that given the current ability of humans and computers, and the fact that chess is complex, it is not possible to calculate anywhere near to all possibilities and hence we need other techniques for helping to estimate the values of moves. I put forward that strategy and positional considerations need to come into play too. At no point have I ever said that calculation is not a major part of chess. So please stop telling me it is - I agree with this!!! Instead, tell me why it is the ***ONLY*** important part of chess!!! Please read the initial article that was posted. Please read the quotes above. Why is chess only tactics? Let me make this clear... I believe that chess is not just tactics. I believe that while tactics/calculation is a major part of chess, other considerations such as strategy and positional evaluation are also important. I believe that none of these aspects is easy to master for either a human or computer player. Gordon
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