Author: Laurence Chen
Date: 14:09:03 10/07/99
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On October 07, 1999 at 13:30:52, Fernando Villegas wrote: >There is only one flaw in your reasonnning about relative strenght of bishops >and knights: this is not like a case of 1+1= 2 or 3. Precisely because it is not >that discussions on this stuff have sense and are possible. Your argument about >mobility is very old and surely have some sense, but not all the sense you seem >to give to it. And it has not so much proofs as those you ask from Marc. You say >he is talking "hot air". Why? So only a talk accompanied with "facts" is not hot >air? So a piece of debate and reasonning cannot exist without "facts"? Facts say >that nothing is fully demostrated in chess, except that if you lose the king you >lose the game. That is the reason so much changes are produced all days in >openning theory and even in endings. That is the reason so many differents ways >to win or lose appears all days. >In concrete, I think that something is not all the time taken into account >respect knights strenght and that thing is his vicious capacity to attack >several point at the same time. A bishop has long range, but there is something >dull in the obvious way it attacks, always in straigh line. You just put your >pawns so and so and the bishop lose track. Even because the obstacle of your own >pawns sometime becomes unseful and even a hindae of the position. A knight, on >he contrary, has enormous flexibility to move over his and enemy pieces. Slowly >as he jump, a knight can become a nigtmare to face in even an ending. I think >this sould be taken into account before to repeat the old saying about bishop >superiority >Fernando Hi Fernando, I believe you misunderstood my post. I never claimed that a Bishop is superior to a Knight, I only cited examples where a Bishop or a Knight may be the superior piece, and this is dependent on the PAWNS in the chessboard. That's my whole argument, the dependency of PAWNS to define the topology of a chess position, which I believe supports the view of Philidor, the pawns are the soul of chess. To say that knights and pawns are soul of chess, is absolutely wrong and there's no truism to such statement, I could even make such a statement like, the Rooks and pawns are the soul of chess !!! Laurence
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