Author: Otello Gnaramori
Date: 23:55:59 07/24/01
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On July 24, 2001 at 19:07:34, Miguel A. Ballicora wrote: >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. That's the point , if you had calculate deep enough you should have seen that danger... >Then you wonder >how lucky the GM was to get that endgame... > >Regards, >Miguel
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