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Subject: Re: 444 commented games

Author: Kurt Utzinger

Date: 07:59:33 09/13/05

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On September 13, 2005 at 10:06:03, Uri Blass wrote:

>On September 12, 2005 at 18:01:16, Kurt Utzinger wrote:
>
>>On September 12, 2005 at 17:51:23, Rafael Vasquez wrote:
>>
>>>Kurt,
>>>
>>>Have you noticed an improvement of your chess after annotating this games?
>>>
>>>Althought analyzing your own games could be better, I'm sure this work
>>>migth have good results.
>>>
>>>Rafael
>>
>>
>>      Hi Rafael
>>      The annotated games are a work over some years.
>>      So I can't give a positive answer to your question.
>>      And unfortunately, I have (successfully) tried to
>>      get draws vs the top engines with a very boring
>>      playing style but I have recently noticed that this
>>      has almost ruined but at least damaged my chess. At
>>      the moment I am doing my best to change things by
>>      playing sharp and tactical games - of course with
>>      only losses vs the strong computer programs ... but
>>      on the other hand with more success against human players -:)
>>      Best regards
>>      Kurt
>
>The question is if the boring playing style is not better against strong humans
>when you want to get a draw.
>
>Uri


      Hi Uri
      My experience show the contrary. When playing dynamic chess
      the stronger players seldom accept even somewhat dubious
      pawn sacrifices in cases where there seems to be some kind of
      compensation (open lines, advance in development and so on).
      And in sharper games it's always possible that the clearly
      stronger player makes a fault too. I have learnt in the mean-
      time that human chess over the board is very sensible to
      many mistakes and often enough the winner is the player who
      did not make the last mistake -:)
      Kurt



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