Author: Mark Young
Date: 10:38:24 07/23/01
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On July 23, 2001 at 13:13:04, Kevin Stafford wrote: >>>Kramnik is a positionally player >> >>That doesn't mean nothing. >>Chess is 99% tactics , you can be a very strong positional player but you will >>fail miserably against a strong tactician. >> > >Well, Kasparov is by all means a strong tactician, and Kramnik faired pretty >well against him, so your point doesn't really mean much in this context. > >-Kevin This is a silly argument, "strong tactician" and a "positional player" is more a matter of style. To say GM Kramnik is not a strong tactician is just inaccurate. All the best positional player in chess history were also great tacticians. To be a great positional player you must be a strong tactician.
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