Author: Telmo Escobar
Date: 18:35:27 10/19/02
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On October 19, 2002 at 13:02:18, Terry Ripple wrote: > >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 There are a lot of cases where the rules, seemingly, don't apply. But the issue is more complex. Chess is a very difficult game, and there are a lot of "rules" still not written in elementary textbooks, just because knowledge improves slowly and existing textbooks still are primitive ones. Top GMs understand the game much deeper (although even they can make blunders). Generally speaking, there are "rules" that are good for beginners, as their ability is undeveloped and following some rules their chance to survive is somewhat better. For strong players, those rules are less important. To be precise, it's not that the rules don't apply: the point is that there are other "rules" as well, more subtle ones, and you have to take into account these as well. For instance: it is often stated that isolated pawns tend to be more weak in the endgame. This sounds believable inasmuch you have less pieces to defend them- yet the opponent has less pieces to attack them as well. Also, it often happens that an isolated pawn can't advance during the middlegame, but later, with few pieces on the board, it can advance and be exchanged.
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