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What Is Truth?

What Is Truth?

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in my reading of chess literature, I've often run into the phrase "Chess truth" As in ""To reach a certain level of chess truth."

Anyone here have the faintest idea what this odd phrase means?

"What is truth?"

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Originally posted by kingisdead
in my reading of chess literature, I've often run into the phrase "Chess truth" As in ""To reach a certain level of chess truth."

Anyone here have the faintest idea what this odd phrase means?

"What is truth?"
I don't think I ever came across such a sentence.Maybe the author was referring to a variation or combination,that is proven to be absolutely correct?

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It might refer to the white lies that we are told at each level, the most easy ones to spot are at the beginner level. Almost all beginners are told things like, "open with one of the center pawns", as time goes on most players develop a hyper moden openings or at least have some theory on them. Other examples might be "dont push the pawns in front of the king", where after a certain level there are huge chunks of theory devoted to pushing the kings pawns in pawn storms. The material points is another lie, one that sticks with people till a semi high level, the queen is only protentially worth 9 the rook is only protentally worth 5 etc etc The value of the pieces changes constantly through out the game, depending on the position. It is certainly not uncommon for a bishop or knight to be worth more than a rook. Most regular players will understand this, but the newbie wont.

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These are execellent thoughts, and might be approaching the "truth"

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