> After learning simple piece development and basic checkmating techniques, it's tactics, tactics, tactics.
Fair enough, tactics is fun, pretty, and rewarding. I like it, too, and do not advocate avoiding it. But if any of their games lasts till the endgame, it is usually the principles not the tactics that contributes to the victory.
> Modern chess engines have evolved towards simpler, faster evaluations
Alas, modern humans do not undergo Moore's law so your analogy to computer chess can as well be turned upside down: we ought to improve our evaluation function if we want to play better with the limited resources of our brain.
Fair enough, tactics is fun, pretty, and rewarding. I like it, too, and do not advocate avoiding it. But if any of their games lasts till the endgame, it is usually the principles not the tactics that contributes to the victory.
> Modern chess engines have evolved towards simpler, faster evaluations
Alas, modern humans do not undergo Moore's law so your analogy to computer chess can as well be turned upside down: we ought to improve our evaluation function if we want to play better with the limited resources of our brain.