Author: Laurence Chen
Date: 14:45:00 03/02/99
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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 Teichmann once said that chess was 99% tactics. Perhaps he was exaggerating a bit. Still I would agree with him that chess is 90% tactics. :) Positional play or find a plan is important in chess, however, one must not forget that it is tactics which wins the game in the end. So where does that leave us, remember that at the time which Steinitz formulated his positional ideas it was written for his comtemporaries which played chess based solely in attacking the king, and sacrifices. The chessmasters of his time were all good in tactics, but had no clue about positional chess. So in our modern times, there's a lot of chess books printed every year, a vast amount of information which can create information overload. IMHO I would say that tactics should be the first steps for a beginner to master before he attempts to learn positional chess.
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