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Subject: Re: General efficiency question

Author: Russell Reagan

Date: 07:44:24 04/23/02

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On April 23, 2002 at 07:38:38, maria clara benedicto wrote:

>just a guess....
>
>                          "chess is 90% tactics..."
>
>right? c.theron?
>
>regards
>
>maria clara benedicto

That was not Knuth's statment. I don't know who said chess is 90% tactics. It's
really 100% tactics theoretically, but in practicallity there is some degree of
positional and strategical influences that we have created for our shortcomings
in tactical ability.

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>On April 22, 2002 at 10:27:49, Russell Reagan wrote:
>
>>On April 22, 2002 at 03:32:44, Peter McKenzie wrote:
>>
>>>You know what Knuth said ...
>>
>>No, I don't know what Knuth said. What did he say?



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