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You would be better off Tribune Media Services CHECKMATE nyone whoplays competitive chess wonders how goodheis or howgood he can A be. Although neither is easy to measure,a player’s potential strength usually is a mystery thatis never solved. It does not help that chesstalent, itself, is an elusive concept. Expert chess players like other top performers share the same general abilities as other intelligent people. They are likely to have good to excellent memories, calculating power, analytical ability and imagination. Although chess players vary inattacking and defensiveskills, tactical and strategic capabilities, and opening, middle game and endgame chessboard. No less a player than Alexander Alekhine, one of the mosttalented ever, lamented after a 1914 tournament: “When I play Lasker orCapablanca, I have absolutely no idea what they are thinking about.” Yet Alekhine, himself, confounded no small numberof other grandmasters. A young Bobby Fischer wrote 50 years later: “Alekhineis a playerI’ve never really understood.” Good or bad, each of us has the ability to bring something uniqueto the universe weinhabit. In the friendly struggle we call chess, this uniquenessis one of our most effective weapons. mastery, it is difficult to identify and measure an underlying chess aptitude. Chess ability is an evolving entity powered by desire, application, effort and will. It is uniqueto each of us and often as baffling to our opponentsasis the persona wedisplayat the Our opponents, like ourselves, have an instinc- Shirov not fully know. At right is a win by Alexander Shirov against Anatoly Karpov from the recent Corsica Masters Knockout Tournament in Bastia, France. 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