Author: Miguel A. Ballicora
Date: 16:07:34 07/24/01
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On July 24, 2001 at 17:38:49, Otello Gnaramori wrote: >On July 24, 2001 at 17:26:43, Roy Eassa wrote: > >>Pawn structure is just an illusion to compensate for lack of tactical foresight. >> >>Whata concept. > >I will answer to you with the words of GM Rhode: > >"Tactics are super important in general ,in fact the saying that chess is 99% >tactics really is true . >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 ? >The positional themes, like "control the center", develop your pieces, don't get >a backward pawn are easy to learn and not a problem..." > >Regards Yes, and a human body is just 75% water, so physiology and some other areas related to medicine are just only hidrodynamics. :-) Saying "chess is 99% tactics" is a true statement but useless... Panno told us once that Najdorf was asked privately if he had any special plan to play against Rossetto (at that time, a young dangerous tactician, probably GM already). Najdorf said that it was ok, "I am not worse tactician than him, so the positional understanding should make the difference". Najdorf was not a phylosopher, he was a very practical player. In computer chess terms, both were good searchers but Najdorf had better evaluation at the tips :-) Positional understanding goes deeper than "doubled pawns" etc. Sometimes, it is "if I trade this bishop, in this particular pawn structure it would be better for me to keep the rooks and I will get a better endgame, like Capablanca had in that game I read when I was a kid". This is the kind of knowledge that some GMs have. So you calculate 10, 15 moves in advance, do not see any danger in trading the bishops and then you get busted. Then you wonder how lucky the GM was to get that endgame... Regards, Miguel
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