Author: Peter McKenzie
Date: 16:31:00 02/13/04
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On February 13, 2004 at 16:58:05, Roy Eassa wrote: >On February 13, 2004 at 16:02:29, Janosch Zwerensky wrote: > >> >>>Go games between strong players of similar strengths are often decided >>>by very long, complicated forced lines where both players repeatedly >>>have to make deep and precise calculations in order to find the right >>>moves. >> >>I don't think so. Most of the time, a complicated fight is in my experience >>merely the last and most obvious symptom that something went horribly wrong long >>before that (a big group that has to run obviously was weak before the opponent >>started to chase it), and hence most of those games are not really decided by >>miscalculation on one side or the other. >>Of course, this doesn't mean that (deep! complicated!) tactics aren't a crucial >>part of the game of Go, it's just that, as is the case also in chess, tactics >>don't fall out of the blue anywhere.... :) >> >>Regards, >>Janosch > > >I'm wondering if it's possible to get quite strong at Go even if you're >tactically at a level only a little above beginner. In other words, if your >feel for "shape" is very highly tuned, can you regularly beat Go players who are >much stronger tactically? I would say no. To be strong I think it is necessary to be strong in life and death, which I would call tactics. >My best anaolgy is that I met Edward Lasker when he >was in his 90s and he outplayed many local chessplayers positionally but fell >victim to tactical errors in a few games. In chess, tactics are basically >everything -- if one player is clearly better tactically, the other one has >little chance to win. But in Go, it seems like tactics are (is?) almost more of >a "tiebreaker" between two players of equal strategic strength, assuming neither >is makes gross beginner-level tactical blunders. > >The theory is this: In chess, tactics matter much, much more than strategy. >Only when both players play equal tactically is strategy a big deal. In Go, >strategy matters more than tactics. Only when both players play equally well >strategically is (are?) tactics likely to matter much.
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