This September 12, 2010

About Strategy, Tactis, Logic & intuition

In the American Heritage Dictionary , strategy is defined as " ... as applied to the overall planning and conduct of large-scale ... operations ," and tactic is the " science that deals with securing objectives set by strategy. " Strategy is overall planning, planning on a large scale and tactics are the parts of strategy . Intuition is defined as the "act or faculty of knowing or sensing without the use of rational processes"; and logic is the use of the rational process to know.

"Thinking methods are at the heart of Chess"and it "is important for the Chess player to" understand "when to rely on intuition" based on a special situation and more on tactics and when to rely on logic, "when to try to solve the problem by calculations to the end game", "starting from more general considerations" at the base of your strategy. 'The best way to confound and confuse a chess opponent is by using tactics." (Ref.: Blein V.; How to Calculate Chess Tactics; Gambit Publications, 2006 - Dworetski M; Analytical Manual ; Rosseld Enterprise, Inc.; 2009; www.ChessCafe.com - Chandler M.; Chess Tactics for Kids and How to Beat your Dad in Chess; Gambit Publications, 2004).

During this Summer I have improved much my game based on strategy and have adopted the Giuco Piano as my prefered opening leading me to many swift victories. Yesterday, I played a game that I should have won against an mate of intermediate strenght. After avoiding those "silly exchanges", I came to dominate the game but having relied more on strategy and having forgotten all about tactics I fell under a pin and lost the game. I decide then to work the tactics and when to consult those books and bought the last one showing the pictures of a bad chess player and of a of a good one. The tactics that will be given in this text are:

  1. the fork
  2. the pin
  3. the skewer
  4. the decoy
  5. the sacrifices: the clearance sacrifice and the desperado sacrifice
  6. the deflection
  7. the overload
  8. the discovered attack
  9. the double check
  10. the interpolated move between exchanges: the zwischenzug
  11. the stalemate
  12. the use of the far advanced pawn
  13. the Bishop-f6 and Knight-f6 combo (combination) (that is nothing than a decoy sacrifice)

 

P.S.-

  1. In fact, my disappointment yesterday was also mostly due to bad attention due to a lack of sleep after having worked, during many days, to repair my computer and reloaded many programs, the last ones having been Multimedia Biology I, Multimedia Calculus 1and StudyWorks.
  2. Intuition (or imagination) and logic (larger scale of reasoning) are both mental processes serving the mental faculty of intelligence, with intuition usibg less complex inferences than logic. The other mental abilities (faculties) which also play a role in Chess are: attention and memory (relying more on learning and knowledge).
  3. My disappointment was even greater when I saw with good mate that I was not playing the Giuco Piano.