Author: Kevin Stafford
Date: 13:14:15 07/23/01
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On July 23, 2001 at 13:38:24, Mark Young wrote: >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. I did not chose the terms, and I never said that Kramnik is not a strong tactician (or that Kasparov is not a strong positional player for that matter). I was simply pointing out why the point made above was indeed "silly" as you suggest. -Kevin
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