Author: Sandi Ordinario
Date: 12:05:32 01/22/03
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On January 22, 2003 at 01:13:55, margolies,marc wrote: >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. Thanks, Marc...I play in both USChessLive and WCN and I have been disallowed to play rated games because the TDs think I have been cheating by refering to a chessplaying computer. I play 5 min blitz in WCN and 2min with 12sec increment in USChL. I just had the fortune (or misfortune) of getting my provisional rating of 1600 improve to 2000+ by luck even beating a 2500 rated GM in the process. It was luck more than anything else because in the now defunct Kasparovchess.com, similar thing happened to me where I was given a provisional rating of 1500 which I was fortunate enough to increase to 2325 in a couple of months and also beating a grandmaster in the process. In that website though they did not accuse me of cheating unlike in USChL and WCN. I am not an excellent player by any stretch of the imagination but more lucky than most, I suppose. I teach chess though and am always trying to understand what differentiates between a computer move and an average player's move in the same position. I am fond of the book Think Like a Grandmaster by Kotov especially where he analyzes grandmaster or candidates move with what B or C players normally come up with. I just enjoy it. Sandi
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