In chess we have rating points. The rules of Sun Zu apply here too.
Do you mean that rating points are the odds we should have, avoiding people with higher rating?
It would be better if you see this way: attack when you have a clear advantage in the position, avoiding premature attacks.
ll-Oliveira, Good point. Chess is a microcosm of life and war. So I think we attack when we have the odds of say the knight (worth 35 static points) and the move, with position, knowing the opponent, his rating, Knight X Knight we want to get the odds on advantage.
There may indeed be times we want to avoid a stronger player, other times he may prepare to attack us. So we must be ready. It depends on what is at stake.
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Thanks.
I have met the enemy and it is me!
There we were, two against two thousand. Boy, did we stuff those two guys up...
Rooperi, 2010
I have met the enemy and it is me!
Resolve the civil war within before you take on the world. Organize your own pieces before you reach across the board. (grin)
Sun Tzu played by his rules, and look where it got him: he's dead as a doornail, and his estate gets not a yuan in royalties.
Vanity to vanity all is foolishness chasing the wind. Chess is so futile in the end. What does it do to gain the whole world and lose your soul.
Pffft, ratings shmatings - picking a fights with players that can kick your ass is the key to chess happiness.
If you can make one heap of all your winnings
And risk it on one turn of pitch-and-toss,
And lose, and start again at your beginnings
And never breath a word about your loss
Rudyard Kipling
Never tell me the odds
Han Solo
You can't get anywhere unless you're willing to take a risk.
Chaucer
That's what Chess is all about. One day you give your
opponent a lesson, the next day he gives you one
Bobby Fischer
Confront them with annihilation, and they will then survive; plunge them into a deadly situation, and they will then live. When people fall into danger, they are then able to strive for victory.
Sun Tzu
^^^
+1
what he said
"Rats fight best when caught in a corner "
Agreed they do, a bulb burns brightest before it go's out. If a person were to work at 100% he'd burn out and get diminishing returns. He cannot sustain it. So its best to work at a 75% optimal speed all day.
If one is traped in a corner, then it is not so much that he will get diminishing returns but the rate of diminishing is what matters.
God forbid that anyone would have a real enemy in this life but if we do we'd want to quantise him. Find a way to put odd's on his strengths. Having legal constraints and social norms in our favour gives us odds.
A one on one conflict is to costly. Two to one divide him. Blind side him or from the back three to one. Never attack unless you have five to one odds. Within a fortress you have nine to one. (Sun Zu)
In chess we have rating points. The rules of Sun Zu apply here too.