Originally posted by onehandgann
And you want your disciples to completly give up tactical exercisises?
Not even your guru Silman would agree with that.
lol, The emperor Silman wants to meet you young Skywalker, it is your destiny!
Actually dude I have read Silmans books, well, reassess your chess anyway, it was even worse than all those tactical exercises that Michael da la Maza suggests that we practise, (I have read and practised the seven circles etc etc and not benefited, al least not consciously anyway.)
The problem with Silmans book was that it listed millions of positional principles, with references, that in themselves are good if you can remember them, but did not contribute anything to the thought process.
It was just as fruitless as tactics, 'oh look there is an open file, rooks belong on open files i better move there? its the thought process that i am interested in and tried to explain in my original post with references.
I mean how do you continue after say 1.e4, do you simply memorise a plethora of opening lines, surely not, as this is memory and not chess.
I tried to show, probably unsuccessfully judging by the reaction, that all candidate moves must be considered and there respective pros and cons put to the test using the guiding principle that there are strategically important squares that maintain their strategic importance throughout the entire game, is it not so? 😀