Author: Russell Reagan
Date: 15:47:58 02/06/03
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On February 06, 2003 at 18:34:23, William H Rogers wrote: >You may be correct in assessment, but I always thought strategy was considered >long range planning. You are correct. I would say that strategy is making a long range plan based upon positional knowledge. Tactics get immediate results. You shoot me, game over. I fork your king and queen, good game. Strategy is more long term, and is usually never an end, but only a means to an end. Does hiding in that dark corner achieve any end? No. It doesn't achieve immediate results. You mess up the opponent's pawn structure so that you can use tactics at a later point when he can't defend all of his isolated pawns anymore. Or, Kasparov gets a pawn majority in hopes of achieving a passed pawn 50 moves later when all of the pieces have been traded off. So yes, it is almost always a long term thing, compared to tactics.
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