Author: liam hearns
Date: 17:30:23 10/04/99
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On October 04, 1999 at 20:24:06, Marc van Hal wrote: >In the time Philidor said that the pawns are the soul (skeleton) of chess >I now say he was only partialy right. >I want to improve this statement by saying pawns and knight are the soul of >chess >After I made my setup for a chessmaster personelety I went up giving the knight >a higher valeu then the bischop. >with this reason that it will use his knight more often and also makes strong >squares for it >The Bischop only is stronger in the very end of the endgame but in all other >stages of the game the knight play a much bigger role in the game then the >bischop that means about 80% of the game the knight plays a bigger role >or you should play like a morphy stylist and brake open lines by doubeling pawns >only then the bischop plays a bigger role in the 100% of the game >but this is a hard style to folow and is very risky. >Just think about it.
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