Author: Peter Skinner
Date: 23:37:07 03/15/05
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On March 16, 2005 at 01:29:16, Tony Nichols wrote: >It's amazing how far one can get by just applying general principles. There is a >good margin for error when selecting a plan. You can go from +/= to =/+ and it >really doesn't mean much. However, If you miss 1 tactic, Splat! With all the >training your doing you should progress rapidly. I wish you luck! >Regards >Tony I think the general principles are really "it's at". I had played chess before the training I am doing, and was considered a hobbiest. I never really took a serious look at the game. Almost every night now I can be found on either ICC/FICS/PlayChess watching games being played by computers and GM/IM's, where I try to guess the moves they may play. I have some fun with it as well. If I guess more than 50% of the moves I get a treat (I am also cutting out junk food.) A while ago I was speaking to a group of IM/GM's on ICC and asked if they thought any of them would come up with a legendary type game like previous World Champions Alekhine, Spassky, or Capablanca. One reply shocked me: "To do what they have done requires a level of concentration that even Kasparov didn't have in his prime years. I don't believe in my lifetime that anyone will produce a game like Alekhine, Capablanca, or Spassky have done. For any game to be given legendary status, it requires two things. A brilliant move played on a board with two brilliant players. Anything less and it is an ordinary game." Peter
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