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Weakness - A perspective

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" The experienced player will learn to distinguish which weaknesses to avoid and which to endure " - William Lombardy ......yet, we find even top players get into committing some serious weakness, time and again! When Tenjiku was asked about the incident of Tanka burning the statue, he replied, " When it is cold we gather around the hearth by the fire" " Was he wrong or not ?" persisted the monk. " When it is hot we sit in a bamboo forest in the valley ," said Tenjiku Chess ideally should be played like this, your opponent should not understand what you play! And for this to happen, you should also have no or less clarity on what is happening! The act of creation should be consigned to tacit integration. Mikhael Polanyi wrote, "Since particulars are more tangible, their knowledge offers a true conception of things is fundamentally mistaken".  In chess, moves or more precisely sequence of moves calculated in advance gives an illusion o