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witpqs -> RE: You know you're playing too much AE when... (9/6/2010 10:53:51 PM)
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Alfred,
I never made it even close to FM, IM, or GM, but I know what I am talking about and you are over-blowing your claim.
In your original post on it you asserted that whenever an internationally rated player made a technically fatal error against another internationally rated player that it was, in fact, fatal. That is not so. Players at that level also sometimes make the error of failing to see and/or take advantage of all the fatal errors their opponent makes. Not all are recognized at the board. There are books of analysis with plenty of examples.
The better the players/opponents, the smaller and less frequent the mistakes they make or that they can get away with. But they do make mistakes, and they do not always pay by losing the game for fatal errors. Obviously I am not talking about dropping a queen or a rook here.
A draw is sometimes the result of no sufficient mistakes made on either side, and sometimes the result of neither player actually taking advantage of technically sufficient mistakes made by the opponent.
It really just isn't true to assert that technically fatal errors at high-level international chess are always taken advantage of. Usually, yes. Always, no.
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