“He who hopes to learn the fine art of the game of chess from books will soon discover that only the opening and closing moves of the game admit of exhaustive systematic description, and that the endless variety of the moves which develop from the opening defies description; the gap left in the instructions can only be filled in by the zealous study of games fought out by master-hands.”

Sigmund Freud

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Do You think that True Mastery comes from Studying others battles or spending most of the time invloved in your own???????????

To get better at chess, one needs to study anotated grandmaster games, do tactical study, learn simple strategy, learn one opening and play chess. (end game study comes much later.) However, this last one, can be overdone without much gane. I see members that have played thousands of games, and still rated 1500. Clearly these players are having too much fun, as opposed to getting better.

Kinda zen...

don't know

just posted that way