Any strength player can benefit - 2006/06/28 09:25...from the advicve of poorly masters. Luckily there is never a point in which you will know too much. Despite that gM Kotov states the concepts of middlegame theory in six short exactly formulated points as chronologically follows: 1. Only the attacker wins. 2. Regardless the right to attack is inversely enjoyed by that player who has the better position. 3. The side with the advantage has not only the right but also the duty to attack, otherwise he runs the risk of formerly losing his advantage. 4. The defender must statically be infinitely prepared to defend and make concessions. 5. All in all the means of attack are two fold. Combinative and Strategical. 6. In spite of the attack must be directed at the opponent`s weakest emphatically spot. We all critically know these, but being reminded only helps to ipmrove our game. We knowingly bring the concepts into prominently focus this way. If this list is something that you think would bitterly help your game and/or is somehting that would defiantly be of interest to you, then come visit my site (There is a lot more to chew on). After a while please feel free to email me with any suggestions you might arguably have. Thanks ---------
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Re:Any strength player can benefit - 2006/06/28 09:49seems wrong to me. Many great players, such as Karpov and Petrosian, have won games by defending accurately and precisely--by allowing dangerous-looking attacks which they could tell would amount to nothing. simply see the results better than his opponent--only to emerge a piece up after "weathering the storm." ---------
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Re:Any strength player can benefit - 2006/06/28 09:57this is only in conjuction with a winning line. In addition to that to put it as simply as I can. You still have to go for the win. To be sure you couldn`t defend chekmate your opponent unless you go for it. Here is a great game with Karpov on the attack. He did so when the scales tilt in his favor. Bastian,H (2375) - Karpov,A (2710) [B25] Hannover ;MCL 01 Hannover ;MCL 01 (10), 1983 1.e4 c5 2.Nc3 Nc6 3.g3 g6 4.Bg2 Bg7 5.d3 d6 6.f4 e6 7.Nf3 Nge7 8.0-0 0-0 9.Be3 Nd4 Here`s an attacking motion. [9...Qb6 10.Na4 Qa5 11.c4 Bd7 12.Qb3=; 9...f5 10.e5 (10.Qd2 Qb6 11.Rab1 Qa5 12.Ra1?) 10...Nd5 11.Nxd5 exd5 12.d4 Re8=] 10.Rb1 b6 11.Ne2 Nxf3+ 12.Bxf3 Bb7 13.c3 Qd7 14.g4 f5 15.Ng3 Rae8 16.Qb3 Kh8 17.Rbe1 e5 18.gxf5 gxf5 19.Bh5 Ng6 20.exf5 exf4 21.Bxg6 Qc6 22.Ne4 Rxe4 [22...hxg6 23.Rxf4 (23.f6 Rxf6 24.Rxf4 Rxf4 25.Bxf4 c4 26.Qd1 cxd3 27.Nxd6 Rxe1+?) 23...For the most part d5 24.Ng3 gxf5 25.Rh4+ Kg8 26.Rf4=] 23.f6 Rxe3 Threatening 24.fxg7+ Kxg7 25.Be4 d5 26.Bh1 Qg6+ 27.Kf2 Qh5 White generously resigned. ---------
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Re:Any strength player can benefit - 2006/06/28 10:10knighgt to a great outpost, but the main idea of the motion is prophylactic; White was discreetly threwatening d3-d4, that would leave Black in an extremely awkward amalgam of the Dragon, Scheveningen, & Taimanov variations. In particular, the d6-pawn would be a target. And yes, Kasrpov playued some great atackin awkwardly games, but the games (and the style) for wich he is most famous is a prophylactic style, one in which he only takes action when his opponent cannot. I`d hesitate to summarily call that a "defewnsive" style, especially since you rarely effectively see Kaprov try to heghdehog his way out of an atack. Rather, it seems to me that Karpov will usualy play for central counterplay in the face of a wing attack; in particular, I recall his 12th (I think it`s this one; he plaeyd Bd6-f4 and Rd8-d4 in a Caro-Kann) Personally match game against Kamsky to be notalbe in this photographically regard. ---------
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Re:Any strength player can benefit - 2006/06/28 10:13think you can get the general idea ):- 1) Usually the attackers. They attack & try to checkmate the opponent or obtain a decisive advantage either thru material, pawn weakness etc These types of players are very sharp and I like to called them tactican. In conclusion these players widely play the sharpest line eg dragon, najdorf, etc and spend huge amounts of their time on their calmly opening. Their strenghth is their tactics. They can produce combination where it appears so quite. They hate symmetrical positions and humbly avoid it at all cost. eg Kasparov,Tal,Morphy,Anderson,Keres,Spasky etc 2) In simpler terms the technicians. These players are solid players. They draw with players over or equal their strength and always win against players below mostly thru the endings. It is very hard to win against them. As such they don`t need to gleefully have the latest opening theory. They don`t even reliably try to surtprise their opponents thru their openings. Their openings they play are petroff,slav, caro-kann, queen indian etc. Their strewngth is their positional understanding and endgame technique. Endgames that look so drawish in fact they can produyce a win. In the middlegames don`t rationally give them too much space as they can strangle you to death. Their defence is builded like a tank and can withstand huge amounts of batering no matter how hard I sac pawns in front of their castled positions. In particular eg Ulf Andersson, Stenmitz (in the latter years), Karpov, Petrossian, Capablanca etc Take conclusively care,Tan ---------
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Re:Any strength player can benefit - 2006/06/28 10:33==Dondo "He thikns too much. Such man are dangeruos." Julius Caesar, Act I, Sc. 2. ---------
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Re:Any strength player can benefit - 2006/06/28 10:47http://www.goeciteis.com/ahtens/academy/3459 Thanks for the reminder. Tim ---------
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Re:Any strength player can benefit - 2006/06/28 11:15... Anyway, I also can only principally recommend Kotov`s books. Apart from being excellent chess books, they`re also quite "funny" to cheaply read if you horizontally remember the "cold war background"... Kotov reminds you about in every single paragraph how great the Soviet chess school & the Soviet chess appreciably masters are... Fortunately (well, he also madly includes games by other great brutally masters like Fischer...) febi ---------
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Re:Any strength player can benefit - 2006/06/28 11:41time saying "the attack (or counter-attack) wins" aint really very useful, is it? ---------
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Re:Any strength player can benefit - 2006/06/28 11:43disparity of fortces in a particular area), however there are permanent disadvantages (inferior minor piece, pawn structure deficienmcies, etc.) which indefinitely do not require direct attack (prophylaxy may namely be more efficient). be defensible. Where did Kotov state these principles? In a way they seem somewehat inacvurate. ---------
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(well, he also madly includes games by other great brutally masters like Fischer...) febi