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1st November 2009, 07:12am
#1
by 64_block_square
Calamba City Philippines
Member Since: Nov 2008
Member Points: 106

who do you think will win if an tactical and positional player played a chess mach?

1st November 2009, 07:21am
#2
by zxb995511
Barcelona Spain
Member Since: May 2009
Member Points: 744

A useless question it is: It would depend on the stength of the players and their preparation, even assuming they were ''equal'' than it would also depend on who was playing white and a whole other large number of circumstances but in definative- I do not know which would win but the loser would be the one to make the ''second to last mistake''. 

1st November 2009, 07:23am
#3
by SerbianChessStar
Belgrade Serbia
Member Since: May 2009
Member Points: 4012

Positional :),

Im a positional player myself.. now lets get back to the point,

if the positional player avoid complicated games then he should win..

but zxb995511 is right, it depends on the strength of each player.

1st November 2009, 08:50am
#4
by Tricklev
Sweden
Member Since: Feb 2009
Member Points: 2190

Alekhine defeated Capablanca

Kasparov defeated Karpov

Does this mean anything? Hardly.

1st November 2009, 08:53am
#5
by Scarblac
Arnhem Netherlands
Member Since: Nov 2008
Member Points: 2009

It's a false dichotomy. There are no purely tactical or purely positional players.

1st November 2009, 08:59am
#6
by rich
United Kingdom
Member Since: Jul 2007
Member Points: 27854

Well I am a positional player as well. I've beat some tactical players and lost to some.

1st November 2009, 09:07am
#7
by kunduk
kolkata India
Member Since: Feb 2009
Member Points: 964
zxb995511 wrote:

A useless question it is: It would depend on the stength of the players and their preparation, even assuming they were ''equal'' than it would also depend on who was playing white and a whole other large number of circumstances but in definative- I do not know which would win but the loser would be the one to make the ''second to last mistake''. 


right..

1st November 2009, 09:12am
#8
by essnov
Canada
Member Since: Sep 2009
Member Points: 189

the obvious answer is that the best player would win

1st November 2009, 09:13am
#9
by Diet_Coke
Sidmouth United Kingdom
Member Since: Feb 2009
Member Points: 169

I've always thought tactics came at the end of good positional play.Undecided

1st November 2009, 09:29am
#10
by ClintBeastfood
Helsinki Finland
Member Since: Jul 2009
Member Points: 27

This obsession to group people in tactical and positional players seems absurd to me. Strong players are good in both areas.

1st November 2009, 09:35am
#11
by philtheforce
bristol England
Member Since: Mar 2009
Member Points: 1299

yeah tactical and positional are close things ..... are they two good things to have in chess and be good at

 

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