03 Sep 07
Originally posted by wormwoodThere's a huge difference between a strategical imbalance and a 'bad' move. Any gambit is by nature a risk. Any Traxler player knows enough about it to ensure equality from the white site. Tal himself found flaws in his sacrifices, I'm quite sure of that.
no he didn't, he might have suspected at the time he played a move that there could be a refutation, but after being unable to find it himself he trusted the problem to be too hard for the opponent as well. which is a completely different thing.
he most certainly would not have played a move to which he found the refutation as well. no good player would.
03 Sep 07
Originally posted by ih8sensshow me a gambit player who knows a refutation to his line, and I'll show you an idiot. equality is not a refutation.
There's a huge difference between a strategical imbalance and a 'bad' move. Any gambit is by nature a risk. Any Traxler player knows enough about it to ensure equality from the white site. Tal himself found flaws in his sacrifices, I'm quite sure of that.
and naturally tal found his flaws afterwards. there's just absolutely no chance in hell he would've played a bad move knowingly. he would've been tossed around the board like a rank beginner had he done that. -that's just not how you play good chess.
03 Sep 07
Originally posted by wormwoodhttp://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessplayer?pid=14380
show me a gambit player who knows a refutation to his line, and I'll show you an idiot. equality is not a refutation.
and naturally tal found his flaws afterwards. there's just absolutely no chance in hell he would've played a bad move knowingly. he would've been tossed around the board like a rank beginner had he done that. -that's just not how you play good chess.
Here's a few.
03 Sep 07
Originally posted by Mad RookLol I've had two chess 'coaches' in my life lol. One was my grampa who taught me at 4 and who lost his first game to me not long after.
Please don't ever hire a chess coach to teach you. You'll either drive him to drink or suicide. 😲
The other one was a teacher at school who played me once in private and refused to be black in a simul I put on for the chess club 😛.
My current coach happens to have a dual core processor and is neither a smoker nor a drinker.
03 Sep 07
Originally posted by ouwe belgI play long games vs. fritz. lol. If you'd look @ my rating you'd figure out rather quickly that I'm not an engine user 🙂.
You have a wonderfully weird way of blending in totally irrelevant information 😵
That,or I am missing the point about your coach' dual processor 😕
03 Sep 07
Originally posted by ih8sensWow!Hold on,I never meant to imply you were.I was merely wondering why you mentioned your coach' dual core processor in this discussion.
I play long games vs. fritz. lol. If you'd look @ my rating you'd figure out rather quickly that I'm not an engine user 🙂.
I was assuming your coach was human,which I now understand was a wrong assumption.So,as usual,it was a case of me not getting it 😛
03 Sep 07
Originally posted by ouwe belgLol I kinda thought so. Though if someone does decide to check me for engine use by running my games through fritz, could you do me a favour and send me fritz' analysis after? I'm too lazy to look through them myself 🙂.
Wow!Hold on,I never meant to imply you were.I was merely wondering why you mentioned your coach' dual core processor in this discussion.
I was assuming your coach was human,which I now understand was a wrong assumption.So,as usual,it was a case of me not getting it 😛