Re: When to Pushout


"Ed Chauvin IV" <edcfour@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Mere moments before death, "Bob Keller" <bk42762@xxxxxxxxxxx> hastily
scrawled:


"Ed Chauvin IV" <edcfour@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message

What makes you so sure that my opponent will see a shot I didn't see?
We're talking hypothetically here, so what if my opponent is my clone
and has exactly the same knowledge and abilities as I?


I'm NOT talking hypothetically. Even the most "even" opponent will execute
and think differently than you. The point isn't that he WILL see something
I didn't. The point is that he MIGHT, AND that he has the CHOICE.
Therefore it is impossible to leave a 50/50 situation, because you cannot
possibly imagine what your opponent will do.

Let me throw it back on you - how do you KNOW that you have left your
push-out in a 50/50 position?

I've never said that you can know this, only that you should strive to
get there as a goal. It's certainly true that you can fail, but by
striving for perfection and practicing perfection you can eventually
reach the point where you will be able to judge with a high degree of
accuracy where the 50/50 position is.


But, if there isn't any such thing it's an unattainable goal. If think it
is possible, then show me just one 50/50 situation on a wei table.

I play people who are very equal in skill to
me all the time, and they nearly ALWAYS shoot shots, position routes and
other choices differently than I would have.

And yet you know this, and refuse to account for it in your push
strategy. Why is that?


Please describe for me in your words what you think my push strategy is, so
that I can understand why you made the above statement.
Bob Keller


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