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Subject: Re: Learning question

Author: Russell Reagan

Date: 15:29:39 05/18/02

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On May 18, 2002 at 15:44:39, Marc van Hal wrote:

>If you postional understanding becomes better this works against everyone

As my previous example clearly shows, this is not the case. Take a set of 10
players. If you are the weakest player in the group, and you play the second
weakest player in the group, eventually using positional learning you will be
able to beat him, and you will become the second weakest player in the group.
Clearly he has learned positionally, but your statement that it "works against
everyone" is also clearly false. The worst two players could be rated under
1000, while the rest are grandmasters. His positional learning that took him
from rank #10 to rank #9 aren't going to mean squat against the grandmasters, so
it's not going to work against everyone.

Russell



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