Author: Terry Ripple
Date: 10:02:18 10/19/02
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On October 19, 2002 at 12:52:17, Uri Blass wrote: >On October 19, 2002 at 12:20:59, Terry Ripple wrote: > >>On October 19, 2002 at 11:04:35, Uri Blass wrote: >> >>>On October 19, 2002 at 10:47:44, Uri Blass wrote: >>> >>>>On October 19, 2002 at 10:25:31, Terry Ripple wrote: >>>> >>>>>On October 19, 2002 at 10:11:45, Geo Disher wrote: >>>>> >>>>>>My Fritz 6 on a 2.4ghz machine thought RxE8 was the best move so it may not have >>>>>>been the best but it was respectible. Also the evaluation showed that White was >>>>>>still better +.38 so it made since for Fritz team to accept draw with this type >>>>>>of eval. >>>>>> >>>>>>On October 19, 2002 at 10:02:00, Terry Ripple wrote: >>>>>> >>>>>>>Why on earth would a World Champion make this move Rxe8? which is somewhat an >>>>>>>inaccuracybecause of his isolated pawn? >>>>>>> >>>>>>>Plus why would Fritz accept this draw offer?? Interesting!! >>>>>>> >>>>>>>Terry >>>>>-------------- >>>>> >>>>>It is well known among strong chess players that you should never voluntarly >>>>>exchange down pieces when you have an isolated pawn weakness because that pawn >>>>>will become increasingly weaker with more pieces off the board and thus the pawn >>>>>will be captured in the endgame! >>>>> >>>>>Regards, >>>>> Terry >>>> >>>> >>>>It is well known for every intelligent player that there >>>>are no general rule for the middle game. >>------------------------------------------------------- >> >>I have to disagree!! Here are just a few simple rules for "intelligent players" >> >>BASIC MIDDLE GAME RULES: >> >>Rule #1: Don't move your King toward the center of the board while major pieces >> are still on the board! > >In most of the cases it is the case but there are cases when moving the king is >the best idea for a mate attack. > >> >>Rule #2: Don't allow pawn islands! > >It depends on the alternatives. >It may be better to allow pawn islands if you control the board and have better >mobility. > >There are rules that are correct in most of the cases but rules like "you should >never..." are not correct. > >This is waht I meant when I posted there are no general rules. >It was a reply to "you should never..." > >Uri ------------ Hi Uri, Oh, i see what you meant, i agree that i made an inaccurate choice of two words as "Should Never"! Sorry for my misunderstanding of what you tried to convey! You are correct that the rules i post are usually correct, but there are very few cases where the rules don't apply! Terry
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