Re: Item 0--Tal, or the yin & yang of the strategy & tactics

On Apr 29, 5:01 pm, "Wlodzimierz Holsztynski (Wlod)"
<sennaj...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Korchnoy made a degoratory remark about
Tal, when he said that Tal plays like a computer.
Whether you consider the computers of that time,
or the present day computers, or the future ones,
Korchnoy's remark was just stereotyping Tal.

Most everybody, including Tal himself,
considered Tal, especially young Tal,
to be a purely tactical player.

Tal's games and especially his annotations
contradict this superficial notion. Indeed,
most everybody was saying, and rightly so,
that Tal's sac's on occasions were not sound,
that they were speculative.

What does it sound like? Why? It sounds like
strategic, positional plying. Tal was not a detailed
positional player, he tended to be a bit sloppy.
But he has added to the chess strategy
the chapter of strategy of the complex positions,
in which exhaustive calculations are not practically
feasible. His fast, extensive, but not exhaustive
calculations allowed him to get a good feel of
his chances.

Yes - this is a very fair synopsis by Wlod.

I might add one thing to it - Albert Alberts on 'How to Fool Fritz' or
any massive calculating engine, suggests a very particular kind of
tactical sacrifice, or technique: material for momentum. Alberts is
not at all romantic about this kind of play, but suggests positions
where a limited risk can be made - and he even scores those risks
according to Fritz's own evaluation of them.

I also think this is what Tal knew to do in the pre-computer age.

Phil Innes



That's what the general advice is: play strategically
but support your strategy by concrete calculations.

Observe that Tal avoided gambits in your face,
like King's Gambit. If he played 1.e4 then it was
to play the strategic Ruy Lopez.

Regards,

    Wlod

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