Author: Fernando Villegas
Date: 18:15:09 05/20/99
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Hi Karinsdad: My problem is similar to that of your opponent. My special set of algorythms is such that I tend to get good positions even taking into account my almost absolute ignorance of openings, but when the moment comes to see and perform a killer move, I just does not see nothing for my side, although I almost see everything for my adversary. But you know, you cannot win a game just parring threaths and sooner or later a last threath do the job. I suppose this weird kind of mixs in our strenghs and weaknesses as amateurs results from the way we were taught the game. I was taught the wrong way, first with strategic treatises and never with tactics, so I knew from the beginning a lot about pawn chains but was not capable to see a simple attack. That let me smell very well what I must do in general terms and what I must avoid in any circunstance, but not on the ground of specific calculations but of general, abstract reasoning ...and chess is not maths or literature, is esentially tactics and calculation. Later I have developed some tactics skills thanks to computers, but the weakness stay there, in the core of my playing, no matter what. Some day a sicology of chess playing style -or lack of it- should be developed. Maybe is a way as good as any other or maybe better to see the so different ways we can use the same brain according which were the first principles they programmed into us. Fernando
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