Cara Menjadi Master Catur Chapter Seven

Easier 

You  read  game  notes  all  the  time  that  say  Black  'has  a  difficult position'. This sounds  like the  annotator is saying  'B lack  is worse '.  Or  perhaps he  means 'B lack is much worse '.  Or even 'B lack  may be completely lost  but my computer can 't find a forced win for  White'. He could  mean any of  those.  But experienced players  know  that  'difficult' can be taken  literally. Some positions are  simply harder to  play than  others :  It  is more difficult to find the best move, or even a good move, in them. Other positions are relatively  easy  to play.  That makes them more attractive to  a  master,  even  though  a  computer may  evaluate them  as  slightly  inferior to the difficult alternatives. The  machine must  be  objective.  But  you 're  not  a  machine  and you 're allowed to  be subjective when it means being  pragmatic. Masters steer the ir  way into  'easier '  positions all the time. Even the strongest masters do. After  15  moves of  a Scotch Game at Nanjing 2009, Magnus Carlsen had given up a  pawn  but had two  bishops and more space than  his  opponent,  Peter  Leko.  Carlsen  conceded  afterwards  that  he  had  no advantage. But "it is much easier  to play," he said, and that was enough for  him. He won.

Work Load 
Let 's  put  that  into  perspective :  Most  would-be-masters can  make the first  ten or so  moves  of a  game  without  thinking.  They  rely  on  opening  theory  they memorized. A typical game lasts another 20 to 30 moves beyond that.  Now, suppose we subtract the  automatic  moves, such as recaptures and responses to  simple threats and  checks  from  those  20 to  30 moves. What's left? The  bottom  line  is  you  may  face  no  more  than  l 0  to  15  somewhat  hard choices  in  a game .  Those choices typically cost you two thirds to  three  quarters of  the clock time  you spend on the entire game. Being  ab le  to  play  five  'easier '  moves,  means  reducing  your  work  load considerably.  Th is  helps  explain  why  you  see  masters  winning tournaments while taking  less clock time than their opponents.

Easiness  Equation 
Of course,  having  an  easier choice  of moves  isn't  always  a  good thing.  The simplest positions of  all  to play  occur when your king is being checked all over the board. You are forced to play the  only legal  move available.  Your moves are easy to  find - but you 're  about to be checkmated.

Reducing Three  Results  to  Two 
Another cliche  that  annotators  love  is:  'Three  results  are possible '. This is their  way of saying the position in  question  is  so double -edged  that  either  player could win, or the game  could end up as a draw. Alternatively, a  player will say  he  avoided  a particular  line  of  play  because only two  results  were possible - and that 's not good.

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