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gnohmon wrote on Tue, Jul 9, 2002 04:29 AM UTC:
> the region between FIDE chess and Go.

For the average player, FIDE Chess involves more calculation because
calculation can do some good; but Go involves more intuition than
calculation because it is so far beyond one's abilities to calculate.
Ishida in his prime was able to calculate go, but the effort was so great
that his prime did not last, thank goodness; his style sucked the life from
the game and made it look like 9 mens morris.

For a normally strong player, that is, for somebody who is good but not the
best in history, go is played more with intuition than calculation; just as
Chess was played in the time of Adolph Anderssen. 

Yes, I favor the intuition side. To me, Sakata is a greater player than
Ishida. And Anderssen needs to be studied to be believed, because tha games
he played in the days when he and everybody else were ignorant of modern
chess theory, how amazing those games are!

You have found me out. You have detected my secret plan. I have tried to
invent forms of intuition chess by making the pieces strong so that
tactical calculations would be difficult. I have also tried to invent
Intuition Chess by making the pieces so weak that the calculations would
run so many plies that nobody could handle them. 

Imho, i may have succeeded in both directions, and more than once.

My most respected go sensei told me not to think too much; play quickly and
trust your intuition! And this one statement was so much more instructive
than all the books I ever read that I respect the game of go even more
because of it. 

In 1997, I found myself in Tokyo and made a pilgrimage to nihon ki-in. By
their standards I was still 3 dan after not having played for 22 years (but
that's only about 1 kyu on igs, they say). The thing about go is that there
are no good variants. If I can make a chess that plays like go, heaven!
Bliss! Who could ak for anything more?

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