The chess books of Drazen Maroviç also seem great.
So how do I study openings best?And how to I strenghten my technique?
any advice on these aspects and other aspects?Advice on training material and how to train?On study material?
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Drazen Maroviç books:
- Understanding Pawn Play in chess
- Dynamic Pawn Play in chess
- Secrets of Positional chess
- Secrets of chess transformation
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Pellik ,I was being ironic on that one
I read that you changed your style to breach the 2000 cap , on what aspects of chess did you work to accomplish that?
I was thinking at Sokolov's book as I play d4.I don't see how just memorizing some opening , would make me a better player.
Sokolov's book is also about QG positions.Nevertheless,I was thinking that it might give the reader a general idea of how to play middlegames due to pawnstructures that occure as a result of openingplay.If you retract that you can read:how to play openings in regard to get a good pawnstructure to get a good middlegame position.
To me it seems as a good way of improving in chess (if I will adquire the knowledge of the book
), as I will play an opening that is middlegame related and I will start the thinking process from the beginning.
Because all I do now is play move by move and record potential ideas whenever they occure.
In september it's gonna be 1 year that I am playing chess.
In the last year I have gone from loosing queens under the 10 moves to beating 1900+ players (+2 -3 =1) , wich netted me a humble 1726 elo.(I value my strenght more then my elo , but elo happens to be a good strenghtmeasurer
)
I have a feeling that I reached a plateau.I manage to compete with -2000elo players , but not with +2000elo players.Wich got me believing that +2000elo players posses skills that I still have to aquire.
I started studying the endgame (''Secret Pawn Endings'' from Muller) and the excersice book from Volokitin (''perfect your chess'') has also proved to help me a lot.
Maybe it's time to study openings?Unfortunately I don't know how to that.Is a book like ''Winning Chess Middlegames'' from Sokolov helpfull when studying openings?I have watched some Shirov dvd's and the way he speaks about openings has made me believe that there is much more then just knowing some sequences and memorizing them.Or are there other aspects wich are more important?
So what do you guys think?