Chess is 99 percent tactics.
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From my point of view i reckon it is about 60% tactics, the other is intuition, positional play and its cousin, strategy.
I don't think you can really determine that, as probably it also depends by e.g. the game situation or by your opposer, or even your game style.
"Chess is 99% blunders." - Itaibn
itaibn wrote:
"Chess is 99% blunders." - Itaibn
i very much agrre with you. lolz!
Nov 3, 2007
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HotFlow wrote: Don't you love intuition when you play for a trap and you just instinctively know from the game so far that your opponent just won't see it.
is this chess?
what do you get out of it? I wonder!
Nov 3, 2007
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greyfox wrote: itaibn wrote:
"Chess is 99% blunders." - Itaibn
i very much agrre with you. lolz!
I think that is not called chess, I think is called give-away or losers, something to that effect
Nov 3, 2007
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KingLeopold wrote:
Chess is 99 percent tactics. - Teichmann
Does anyone know the source for this quote?
I have an old chess book which quotes Teichmann as saying chess is 90% tactics and not 99% as I see it most else were. I was wondering which quote was most accurate?
I wonder what's contained in the 1% most of us!? seem to know little if nothing about
Nov 3, 2007
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I think all the sources say that Teichmann said that chess was 99% tactics. I would like to know the source that says 90% tactics. Some sources say that he did not use the word tactics, but calculation, so that chess is 99% calculation.
Nov 3, 2007
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chess IS 99% tactics if you consider that tactics are what hold all strategies together.
billwall wrote: I think all the sources say that Teichmann said that chess was 99% tactics. I would like to know the source that says 90% tactics. Some sources say that he did not use the word tactics, but calculation, so that chess is 99% calculation.
I came accross it about a month ago and thought it strange. I'll have to find it again to tell you where it was.
An interesting note; My coach Rashid Ziatdinov told me that chess was not 99% tactics, its just that tactics takes up 99% of your thinking time.
if chess is 99% tactics I've only been practicing 1% of the game...
Strategy is the mother of tactics. Which came first-the chicken or the egg? In chess it is strategy(the overall plan of your game,your goals,your vision of where the game will go)which during the course of events will lead to tactical play. it is the same in any game, course of work, writing a thesis,etc. In writing a thesis, one first develops the outline-this is the direction of where i want to go in this paper(strategy), and then one fills out the outline(fleshing out the body of the work)-tactics. Please correct me if you think i am wrong as i am no expert(far from it!), but have some years of experience in both chess and life.
Nov 4, 2007
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yeah,I guess Ali thought boxing was 99% punches?!, I wonder !
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d3tLJi_B7Cg
Nov 8, 2007
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KingLeopold wrote: An interesting note; My coach Rashid Ziatdinov told me that chess was not 99% tactics, its just that tactics takes up 99% of your thinking time.
Absolutely spot on :)
Nov 8, 2007
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doctor-ice wrote: Strategy is the mother of tactics. Which came first-the chicken or the egg? In chess it is strategy(the overall plan of your game,your goals,your vision of where the game will go)which during the course of events will lead to tactical play. it is the same in any game, course of work, writing a thesis,etc. In writing a thesis, one first develops the outline-this is the direction of where i want to go in this paper(strategy), and then one fills out the outline(fleshing out the body of the work)-tactics. Please correct me if you think i am wrong as i am no expert(far from it!), but have some years of experience in both chess and life.
You can have tactics with no strategy, you can't have a strategy with no tactics.
I don't really think the two are related other than you use your tactics within your strategy, the way I see it, you make your stragegic planning based on your tactical knowledge.
I really do think luck can sometimes play a much bigger part than 1% though.
Nov 8, 2007
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Ok!, let's say I agreed with your thought of tactics being mostly the base for everything that happens on the chess board!
now,: could you explain to me why there are more FMs (over 25 years old) than there are IMs in the world of chess, even when it is known that FMs (over 25 years old) are extremely good at tactics (most of these FMs's tactical skills are as good as GMs's)?
would one of the main reason for them getting stucked at FM be the fact that they refuse to step outside their norrow hyper tactical world?
note: keep in mind that no one has ever put out a fire using fire
Chess is 99 percent tactics. - Teichmann
Does anyone know the source for this quote?
I have an old chess book which quotes Teichmann as saying chess is 90% tactics and not 99% as I see it most else were. I was wondering which quote was most accurate?