Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 12:41:45 04/19/04
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On April 19, 2004 at 13:49:15, Gian-Carlo Pascutto wrote: >On April 19, 2004 at 13:33:01, Robert Hyatt wrote: > >>It's losses are tactical losses only, not >>"positional losses" which is not how a 1300 player (or 1500 player) actually >>loses games... > >I'd think any game between <1900 ELO players is decided almost exclusively >on tactics. > >Of course positional playing strength does matter, but it's not what >decides games, usually. > >-- >GCP That wasn't the point. You don't have a 1300 player that understands everything about pawn structure but is tactically horrible. IE with a chess program, with a reasonable evaluation, tactics have to be way beyond bad to offset the positional evaluation. Then it just doesn't feel like playing a weak human, it feels like playing something else entirely...
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