Author: Jonas Cohonas
Date: 21:23:34 10/18/05
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>In a high, stratospheric philosofical sense, "style" is always equal to >imperfection. > >Ferdinan Hegel Pretty interesting, but if one goes by the universal expression one must include "imperfections" in order to express what is true to you. In music there is a saying "learn all the rules and theory, so that you can break the rules and bypass theory" in other words make music yours. Music however has no right or wrong notes, if a player is good enough he can play out of key and have it make sense, though it will take a trained ear to aknowledge it. In chess there is no "style" only sound moves and unsound moves (the degrees vary of course), if we talk of a "style" we are referring to a players preference to what aspect of the game he tends to emphasise, ie Shirov has an attacking/aggressive style that leads to complicated positions, but that is his choice to play like that, he choses to play "imperfect", because he likes it and thinks that he does it better than most. What we call positional play in chess is just deep tactics that we don't have the brain power (nor does computers) to calculate perfectly and we have to go by gut, pattern recognition and rules of thumb to play a positional move. Style is a matter of preference and choice, chess is chess and is a big equasion that we do not understand or know how to solve, thus we must make some choices based on what we are good at and bad at, and that leads to some recognizable patterns that we end up labeling as a "style". If we didn't make mistakes and overlook the fact that chess would then be more boring than beating a chimp at tic tac toe, we wouldn't learn and get better, so mistakes are good and healthy as in all other aspects of life, except maybe brain surgery and similar instances :) Regards Jonas
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