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Subject: Re: Positional knowlege: So difficult ?

Author: Christos Gitsis

Date: 08:04:58 09/16/05

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On September 16, 2005 at 00:32:02, Zheng Zhixian wrote:

>On September 15, 2005 at 23:00:42, Christos Gitsis wrote:
>
>>On September 15, 2005 at 11:55:50, Thomas Lagershausen wrote:
>>
>>>Please buy a good chessbook and read the chapter king castle on different wings.
>>
>>Comments like this show that one does not understand chess at all.
>>You think that you (or any chess author) hold the absolute truth about this
>>position?
>>Chess is more complicated than that.
>>
>>About this position, I think that if white tries to start a King-side pawn storm
>>black can respond with ..b5 ...a5 (with the knights on b3 and c3 the paws will
>>advance gaining tempi) and an attack on the queenside. Black's King-side seems
>>less  vulnerable than white's Queen-side, and I would prefer to play black.
>>
>>1.Qg3 might be best for white, if the engines say so.
>
>Comments like this show that one does not understand chess at all.
>You think that the chess engine (or any chess engine) hold the absolute truth
>about this position?
>Chess is more complicated than that. :)

You failed to notice the use of the words/phrases "I think", "seems", "I would
prefer", "might", which indicate that I was stating my opinion about the
position.

I did not claim that I knew which was the correct move.

Christos



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