I am in !!
Looking forward to it. Once again I have a few games (current) where the pawn structure is either going to make or break it. This is always due to good (or poor) pawn play in the early game.
Chess Mentor: Pawn Play Study Group
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first , thanks for inviting me to the group
and im in for this course
count me in also
Mar 14, 2012
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#6
So far, I count 5 members who are interested. As soon as we get one more to commit, we'll start the course. Reminder, though: Chess Mentor is only available to premium (diamond-level) members. So, we may only have 2 members qualified to participate (unless the others want to upgrade for this feature). Please let me know if I'm wrong about the membership level required to use Chess Mentor...
Thanks for the invitation. An aspect of chess I wish to improve on and share learning experiences
Mar 23, 2012
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#8
It seems like we have enough interest to begin. So, let's begin. Here's the 1st lesson: Dangerous "Free" Pawns.
Once you complete this first lesson, please reply to this forum with:
- Your score
- Your time-to-complete the lesson
- Your thoughts on the lesson
Our goal will not be to see who did best on any particular lesson, but to encourage us to each try our best knowing that our fellow "classmates" will see how we did. I'll occasionally summarize everyone's results.
Thanks for participating.
ECHOOooo......
Mar 24, 2012
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#9
I completed Lesson 1 with a score of 56% in 14:36. Surely, someone can do better than this! Report your scores and I'll occasionally summarize our efforts.
Apr 3, 2012
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#10
Summary of scores for Lesson 1:
Time To
Name/ID Rating Complete Score
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ECHOOooo 1806 14:36 56%
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score:%92 time:03:09 rating: 1752
May 13, 2012
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#12
It appears that you do need to be a diamond member for this program.
Hopefully in the near future this is my new reality. Until then, I will continue on the other training.
Cheers
May 14, 2012
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#13
played it. Nice. but I don't understand why the black kingside rook didn't take the bishop instead of the king
May 15, 2012
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#15
Hi, I would like to join. Here it is my first lesson :
Initial Score: 84%
My Current Rating: 1799
Total Time : 09:56
what happened to this study group ? my premium membership will run out of time before you start the course
Oct 4, 2012
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#18
Okay, then lets keep it alive...
Second lesson : Pawn squirmishes in the center
Let's give ourselves 3 days for mentor course. If you fall behind just do them whenever you can.
Oct 4, 2012
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#19
Lesson 2
Name/ID Rating Score
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gfaq 1798 72%
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This is the 2nd study group planned for Pawn Structure University. The first study group "Understanding Pawn Play" is structured around the analysis of complete games from the book "Understanding Pawn Play in Chess", by Marovic.
This 2nd group will be working through a Chess Mentor course on Pawn Play by IM John Grefe. The goal is to work through one lesson from the Chess Mentor Pawn Play course every two weeks and report our scores and comments on what we learned in this forum. By scheduling a new lesson every 2 weeks, we can encourage each other to keep making progress without taking too much time away from our other activities. I haven't taken any lessons from this course, yet, but the topic is appropriate to our group. Similar courses I've seen in the Chess Mentor series take about 20-30 minutes to complete each lesson.
Note: Due to the fact that this study group is based on Chess Mentor, only Premium members of chess.com will be able to participate. If you're not a Premium member, you might consider upgrading your membership, or participating in our other Pawn Structure University study group(s) instead (such as the Marovic study group mentioned previously).
If you are interested in this Chess Mentor Pawn Play study group, simply reply to this post indicating your interest. Once we get 6 interested members, we'll kick things off.
ECHOOooo.....