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Subject: Re: What constitutes human-like play?

Author: margolies,marc

Date: 22:13:55 01/21/03

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On January 21, 2003 at 11:49:43, Sandi Ordinario wrote:

>Thanks for the "free"lessons, Marc. I still await your publications on the
>theory of the opening and middle game in Chess. There is an IM from Texas whose
>name escapes me at this time who wrote about a "reverse strategy" which is
>really a form of retreat of his piece(s) so as either to draw the opponent into
>untenable territory or allow a stronger piece a pathway to attack. Or in your
>own words win some kind of tempo. It is a neat book because the conventional
>wisdom is to marshall ones forces forward into the fray or storm the barricades
>as GM Christiansen would have it in his book as fast as one could mobilize them
>of course putting them in strategical or tactical positions.
>
>Sandi

my experience as a general rule is that strong gm s dont like computers at all
because they cant help them play better against other stong gm s. (not ignoring
their tactical uses in blunder checking analysis but as a playing engine).
i do know a few of them in new york and this is the sense i get from them.



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