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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