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OK, I recently I purchased, at Strategy Games of course, the book Python Strategy, by Tigran Petrosian. Right off I find the book fascinating, and I haven't even got to the games. Here are a few things that are said....
Right away, Petrosian's original title for the Russion book was "Strategy of Soundness" That tells you something.
Nikolai Krogius has this to say...
"The level of technique and theory that had built up by the middle of the 20th century meant that the number of one-sided games was reduced to a minimum" -- I had never thought to correlate the growth of the grandmaster draw with the advancement of chess theory, but it makes sense. A chess statistician might want to take this one on.
Krogius also says that Petrosian stressed the logic of chess above all else. So I suppose we can say that the growth of the Grandmaster draw is logical?
Champions usually have a their calling, and this helps them to develop the abilities and strength of will that are indispensable on the road to great achievement.... Tigran Petrosian was an exception. He reached he summit solely on account of his talent, having no other advantage over his rivals.
Petrosian himself says that he would read chess books without the use of a board. His favorite was Nimzowitch Chess Praxis, and he said that he read it so many times that he could recite the whole thing by heart. He also says that he played a lot of blindfold chess from the age of 13-15.
So what are we talking about? What is this thing called talent? It sounds to me, at least from this, that talent is something innate, something special about his brain that he was born with. A genetic predisposition towards chess if you will. It sounds as if all came quite easy t him.
Petrosian could win when he wanted to. A whole different ball of wax in the Olympiads. A member of nine USSR team gold medals, earning six individual gold medals while compiling a record of 78 wins, 50 draws, and one loss. I expect his record in the European Team Championships is smilar.
Very Interesting is Petrosian's comments for the 5th game of his 1963 match against Botvinnik. After 11 moves a complex, but more or less balanced endgame is reached, and he says that if it were any other occasion, the game would very likely end peaceably, but here he fights long and hard for the win
"But it seems to me that a good deal depends on one's mood. If the desire to fight is there, the position is full of life. If you don't want to fight, then any position of the sharpest kind can very quickly be made anaemic"
Now wouldn't that be a nice skill to have, the ability to make any position anaemic! Unfortunately, they don't seem to teach this kind of stuff in chess books, because it doesn't sell I guess. Even this Petrosian book has only his victories. I guess I have to go through the databases and figure it out for myself.
Last edited by Fred Henderson; Thursday, 12th September, 2024, 11:16 AM.
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