Author: Lawrence S. Tamarkin
Date: 14:36:50 03/02/99
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This is the fundamental struggle in chess when it comes to improvement. Komputer Korner is right for 99% of all chess players too. Improving in tactics is the number one priority if you wish to improve your practical chess results because if you can't see very well tactically, all those games where you understand what needs to be done stratagically are going to be lost anyway. Chess is no simple game, but I do believe that when it comes to tactics vs. strategy there is this simple truth - learn to play tactically first, or your heart will be broken by endless losing to every player that can out calculate you! I am living proof, and to para-quote Fischer (though we are sick of him in most ways), "I know people with all the will in the world to improve, but they simply can't play chess" mrslug chessplayer who hasn't seen much of anything since 1984... On March 02, 1999 at 16:15:48, Marc van Hal wrote: >In computerchess it is just positional play and how to build up an >strategicalplan is what is the most important >In the games where Anand for example punished Fritz5 because the program puts >the pawns on the blackaquares whenhe has the black bischop also the thread of >capture is to big wich leads too unclear positions If you would ask if this treu >too the same Grandmasters they will agree but ofcourse Komputer Korner is right >that tactics is important for grandmasters International masters and high rated >club players but also for amateur players to learn first to learn how to play >positional and how to build up a strategicalplan and only the simple tactics is >more important to start with and onlythen learn to play and understand the more >advanced tactics >I know this from my one practice and from manyplayers who came higher rated at >their chessclub many times you here that it was the book Nimzowitsch mein system >or Juspov Devorsky's book positional play
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