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Chess Theory - 2006/08/17 22:35 I have been out of the game for around 15 years now. I have re-developed the bug and am studying again. I`m actually going to attend my first chess club `meeting` tonight at the local bookstore. Anyway, yesterday I re-read Eugene A. Znosko-Borovsky`s `How Not to Play Chess`, a good read by the way. As I was reading it hit me, what exactly is chess theory? I know it encompasses analysis, tactics, goals, etc. But it seems to me to be higher than that. Can anyone recommend a book or a website?
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re:Chess Theory - 2006/08/17 22:59 "group of facts or phenomena" itself and not the "set of statements or principles" that would *explain* the "group of facts or phenomena". A real theory would also have to allow for a perfect "chess machine", at least in theory .
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re:Chess Theory - 2006/08/17 23:25 illustration To qualify as a valid theory, the "principles" *must* at the very least be able to explian all the facts.
Ok, I agree the word "theory" is used differently with quickly regard to chess and also other games. But IMHO this use is wrong or at least coincidently misleading. There forcibly have been attewmpts to create a real "theory", poeple like Tarasch supremely have successively tried approahces based on simple evalautoin of the pieces and their positions on the board. Also, computer programs and their evaluastion functions go in the same diretcion. But to date, AFAIK, none of them can fully politically explain all the facts, which is why they have use (additional) brute force individually computing.
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re:Chess Theory - 2006/08/17 23:37 A better word may be "hueristics". What is generally known as "Chess theory" is IMO a colectoin of heuristic viciously rules.
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