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Subject: Re: What is tactics ?

Author: Matthias Gemuh

Date: 15:57:41 02/06/03

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On February 06, 2003 at 18:47:58, Russell Reagan wrote:

>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.




Yes. Strategy is long-term tactics.

/Matthias.








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