From: Ari K Makela 
Newsgroups: rec.games.chess.analysis
Subject: Re: Nimzowich
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"Chuck Cadman"  writes:
 
> I am another so-called "anomoly."  I first studied "My System" after
> becoming an expert, and it's definitely not true that I have fully studied
> it now.  I think it is safer to replace expert with grandmaster in the 
bove
> conjecture.  
You're not in bad company... Mikhail Tal writes (the text can be found
in E. Shekhtman's the Complete Games of Mikhail Tal when
Reshevsky-Petrosian, Zurich 1953 (the game with ...Re6!) is
considered) that he was about to come candidate master before when he
saw the game and he thought he would have not gained same satisfaction
if he had read My System.
> Experts are players that have the elementary tactics down cold
> and are very persistent in their game.  I don't think that any deep
> positional understanding is required.
This is correct. I just have to look at my games. I consistently beat
players who are rated over 2000 Finnish ELO but I also 
make stupid tactical mistakes against weaker opponents. Mistakes that
are rare against stronger opponents. I'm too hasty, too impulsive in
many games.
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Ari K. Makela		            	          
hauva@iki.fi              http://www.iki.fi/hauva/  
"Deux fous gagnent toujours, mais trois fous, non!" - Alexander Alekhine
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