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The Game of Mistakes
Chess is a game of bad moves. It is, in fact, the game that most
depends on error, No game has a greater variety of ways of going
wrong or gives you as many opportunities--dozens on every move.
Other games depend heavily on chance or on the mastery of
some relatively limited skills. But a chess game is decided by the
failings of one of the players.
Yet we refuse to recognize this. \Ve like to think the game is
a battle between good moves and better moves. vVhen we win,
we tell ourselves-and anyone who wlll listen-that the critical
difference was our fine maneuvering, our positional cunning, or
our tactical ingenuity. \Vhen we lose, weIl, it was a stupid mistake-
as if errors were an aberration, an extraordinary accident.
Mistakes can only be messy, ugly, and dislUptive, we say.
Regardless of our own success, we like to think a chess game
should be won, not lost. (We thereby ignore that most vital skill,
the ability to e''Ploit enemy mistakes.) vVe try to elevate the
game to some level it can never achieve-at least not wl1i1e ifs
being played by humans.
The masters know better. They know that a well-played game
is not an error-free game. There are errors of varying magnitudes,
and each game is sure to hold some smaIl mistakes. «Chess is the
struggle against error," said Johannes Zukertort, one of the greatest
players of the last century. Victory belongs to the player who
struggles best-not just against an opponent, but against himself.
And the fact is that most games, even at the grandmaster level,
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