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From: billmers@merlyn.enet.dec.com (Meyer Billmers)
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Subject: Re: Another chess question
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Date: 2 Apr 91 13:44:22 GMT
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>One grandmaster (who ?) that was asked how many moves he used to look ahead
>replied 20 and another grandmaster (Reti ?) replied 2 !

And then there's the quotation, circulating recently in rec.chess and
attributed
to the grandmaster Tartakower. When asked how many moves ahead he looked, he
replied "One; the best one."