Author: Tom Kerrigan
Date: 01:40:03 12/29/01
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On December 29, 2001 at 04:24:55, Otello Gnaramori wrote:
>On December 28, 2001 at 23:51:33, Miguel A. Ballicora wrote:
>
>>On December 28, 2001 at 21:57:03, Christophe Theron wrote:
>>
>>>
>>>I think it is rather well established by now that human players are, like
>>>computers, studying a chess tree, trying to find the best possible continuation.
>>
>>Actually, not. That is the vicious influence from Kotov's teaching that
>>made everybody think that they should think like a tree.
>>There are recently two books that finally made in writing what everybody
>>suspected. "Improve your Chess Now" by J. Tisdall and "Secrets of Practical
>>Chess". Not even amateurs are taught NOT to think like a tree nowadays, and the
>>best book about it is "How to reasess your Chess" by J. Silman.
>>
>>First quote from Tisdall's book, first Chapter ("The Fabled Tree of Analysis"):
>>
>>"I do not think like a tree - do you think like a tree?" GM Anatoly Lein.
>>
>>There are certain situations where a strong player think like a tree, but
>>their thinking should certainly not be characterized by that.
>>
>
>Taking as an example Kasparov, he is renowned for his powerful calculations
>capabilities of the variations (...tree), both in analysis and both in OTB.
Being able to come up with variations does not a tree searcher make.
A SEE can come up with a variation and it's not searching anything.
-Tom
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