> Once you're good enough, the tactics melt away and you just think about the strategy. That just isn't true. Remember the famous game where Kramnik got mated

> Once you're good enough, the tactics melt away and you just think about the strategy. That just isn't true. Remember the famous game where Kramnik got mated by the computer? It is impossible to play chess without ever searching the game tree. Different players search it to different extents, but there's nobody who is so good that they know all the tactics in a game by instinct. By the way, thanks for linking to that site. I saw that "playing to win" article a while ago, and was really impressed by it, but then I forgot the title.