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Originally posted by wormwood
no he didn't, he might have suspected at the time he played a move that there could be a refutation, but after being unable to find it himself he trusted the problem to be too hard for the opponent as well. which is a completely different thing.

he most certainly would not have played a move to which he found the refutation as well. no good player would.
There's a huge difference between a strategical imbalance and a 'bad' move. Any gambit is by nature a risk. Any Traxler player knows enough about it to ensure equality from the white site. Tal himself found flaws in his sacrifices, I'm quite sure of that.

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Originally posted by ih8sens
There's a huge difference between a strategical imbalance and a 'bad' move. Any gambit is by nature a risk. Any Traxler player knows enough about it to ensure equality from the white site. Tal himself found flaws in his sacrifices, I'm quite sure of that.
show me a gambit player who knows a refutation to his line, and I'll show you an idiot. equality is not a refutation.

and naturally tal found his flaws afterwards. there's just absolutely no chance in hell he would've played a bad move knowingly. he would've been tossed around the board like a rank beginner had he done that. -that's just not how you play good chess.

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Originally posted by wormwood
show me a gambit player who knows a refutation to his line, and I'll show you an idiot. equality is not a refutation.

and naturally tal found his flaws afterwards. there's just absolutely no chance in hell he would've played a bad move knowingly. he would've been tossed around the board like a rank beginner had he done that. -that's just not how you play good chess.
http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessplayer?pid=14380

Here's a few.

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Originally posted by ih8sens
http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessplayer?pid=14380

Here's a few.
Please don't ever hire a chess coach to teach you. You'll either drive him to drink or suicide. 😲

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Originally posted by Mad Rook
Please don't ever hire a chess coach to teach you. You'll either drive him to drink or suicide. 😲
Lol I've had two chess 'coaches' in my life lol. One was my grampa who taught me at 4 and who lost his first game to me not long after.

The other one was a teacher at school who played me once in private and refused to be black in a simul I put on for the chess club 😛.

My current coach happens to have a dual core processor and is neither a smoker nor a drinker.

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You have a wonderfully weird way of blending in totally irrelevant information 😵

That,or I am missing the point about your coach' dual processor 😕

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Originally posted by ouwe belg
You have a wonderfully weird way of blending in totally irrelevant information 😵

That,or I am missing the point about your coach' dual processor 😕
I play long games vs. fritz. lol. If you'd look @ my rating you'd figure out rather quickly that I'm not an engine user 🙂.

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Originally posted by ih8sens
I play long games vs. fritz. lol. If you'd look @ my rating you'd figure out rather quickly that I'm not an engine user 🙂.
Wow!Hold on,I never meant to imply you were.I was merely wondering why you mentioned your coach' dual core processor in this discussion.
I was assuming your coach was human,which I now understand was a wrong assumption.So,as usual,it was a case of me not getting it 😛

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Originally posted by ouwe belg
Wow!Hold on,I never meant to imply you were.I was merely wondering why you mentioned your coach' dual core processor in this discussion.
I was assuming your coach was human,which I now understand was a wrong assumption.So,as usual,it was a case of me not getting it 😛
Lol I kinda thought so. Though if someone does decide to check me for engine use by running my games through fritz, could you do me a favour and send me fritz' analysis after? I'm too lazy to look through them myself 🙂.