Heh. Sounds great, sharkpoet! Korchnoi and Fischer are awesome players. You may also enjoy learning from the games of past masters--such as Anderssen and Morphy. The winning plans from those days are sometimes easier to grasp for us mere mortals.
For example: Mayet-Anderssen, Berlin 1851 or Morphy-Anderssen, Paris 1858
Annotated games from books or magazines (but even from the Game Analysis forum!) are also very helpful, because you can compare your ideas to someone else's. :)
Nice post, sharkpoet! Game Analysis is very important as a training tool.
Heh. Sounds great, sharkpoet! Korchnoi and Fischer are awesome players. You may also enjoy learning from the games of past masters--such as Anderssen and Morphy. The winning plans from those days are sometimes easier to grasp for us mere mortals.
For example: Mayet-Anderssen, Berlin 1851 or Morphy-Anderssen, Paris 1858
I have looked at games from Anderssen and Morphy, but I am a little partial to Harry Nelson Pillsbury.
Sunday April 27
Studied for an hour over Dvoretsky's endgame manual
20 min. break
Looked over games of Korchnoi for another hour
half hour lunch
will study my own games after my time here on the internet for another hour
well, I'm still pretty much a chess noobie. I learned the game when I was 13. A friend of mine was on the chess team and made fun of me for being on the football team. He'd say things like, "You're just a dumb jock, how could you EVER understand this game?" So within two weeks I learned the basics of how the pieces moved and challenged him to a game. I won two out of three games, and needless to say he kept his mouth shut after that! I never thought about chess again until about two years ago (am 32 now) I started playing during break times with a group friends. I was horrible when I started playing them, but I just kept playing and challenging myself to do better. I started reading articles on Chesscafe and Silman's The Amateur's Mind and suddenly my chess improved. I then joined a chess club in my area and joined the USCF. I've only just started to play OTB tournaments (my rating is a meager 801!) but I find it exciting to test myself against other opponents who are rated much higher than me! I've also just started to look over games of my favorite players( Korchnoi because his style is something that I long to posess! and Fischer because he knew how to dominate the chess board.) My training is limited to about an hour to an hour and a half in which I will go over my own games, go over games of my favorite players, and try solving chess problems. My goals are to beat the stereotype that it is impossible for anyone to become master when they have started playing serious chess later in life. It may take until I am 60, but I will enjoy the experience along the way!