On Mar 20, 12:18 pm, Ron wrote:
In article .com,
"help bot" wrote:

he point is
not simply how quickly you win, but cutting
risk by simplifying to where the win is more
certain is an effective weapon of the strong
player.

I hope it was clear that I was being tongue-in-cheek.

Maybe it wasn't.

You were supposed to challenge my claim that
somebody good at chess told me about this! Ask
me who, and demand to see proof. Clearly, I can
not know this apart from "outside information". :D

Right now, I am in a tough endgame at RedHotPawn
where I overlooked a strategy by my opponent. I got
caught up in keeping my winning chances (barely)
alive and now I think he may be able to get connected
passers (gulp) in a Rook ending (yikes) where of
course, a decent player must have informed me that
Rooks are very clumsy in stopping two of those
pawn thingies. Not so many moves ago, I was
looking at a position where I had the initiative and if
I had only knuckled down then, I wouldn't be losing
now. Grrrr.

-- help bot