Saturday, December 27, 2008

My conclusions

Lief Pressman and Adam Maltese played me a few one-minute games today, and I do mean played me. Here's what I learnt I think:

Strong players know way more constellations. There are several ways to learn constellations:
a) listen to a stronger player
b) watch a stronger player
c) read something written by a stronger player
d) generalize (but with caution)
e) use logic, as time permits, to determine which generalizations apply

Am I right?

1 comment:

From the patzer said...

Rules are in place so beginners have a cruch to hang on to when playing while when you get stronger and stronger one has to learn that one must not follow the rules in all positions. Some positions are exceptions, some positions ask you to deny all that you have learned and play a move that goes against the rules.

That's why you see strong players sometimes give a rook for a bishop or why they do a sacriface to crack open the opponents position, ... .

So yes, rules (the generalizations) are important but sometimes one has to know when not to follow them.