How to properly execute a plan.

Thanks hamworld05, that's some great feedback.
I'm sending you a personal message transpo, that was an amazingly enlightening post having a length and depth I hardly expected in one of these comments.

It depends what type of advantage you have.   If you have an advantage in space than you should take your time.   If you have an advantage in development is it not going to last, the other side will catch up, so you have to force the issue.

Your welcome I'm sure.  I am paying it forward on this chess website (chess.com.)  I only wish I could convey to the players posting here, trying so hard to get stronger; what it feels like to discover the "truth" in almost every position or game you analyze.  That is an emotion of satisfaction you can only experience when you have done the hard work and study that it takes to become a 'professional gunslinger' (a very strong player.) 

Looking forward to your personal message.

@blake78613

Here it was material advance.

@ transpo

Reading books is well, but playing chess is better. When you are under severe kingside attack with a compensation of a sacrified piece (or the other way round), the pawn structure on the queenside has a very limited informative value - it is enough to know you can win the endgame if you survive and keep your piece. When you are a rook up in material (with no compensation, of course), you will happily get doubled isolated pawns if it trades the queens off the board.

Based on the fact you did not play any chess games here on chess.com in more than two years of membership, on a tactics trainer 66% score at the ~1200 level of problems (with only three tries, yet you failed one at that level) and your speaking of discovering the etheral 'absolute truth' (while posting something that could fit with any game, except for the 'blocked center' part which must be obvious to a serious Caro-Kahn player)...

...I do strongly suspect that your are trying to lure 1600-1900 players into admiring your clever strategy when you are about 1300, due to your lack of experience in real play.

I may be wrong - then please correct me, and post some analysis to show the world you are indeed talented, or, at least, better than mortals such as macros, utarefson or me. And yes, of course, I've also read books, but I do not know any chess player that got strong with reading others' games.

it is an interesting struggle between "truth" in a position (ie what the BEST move is) and reality. In practical terms chess is more of a game of not the BEST move but playing a move that gives practical chances. If you follow what a lot of players talk about in their games they talk about practical chances to win or draw. Chess is a game between two players, two human players who make mistakes . The goal in a game is to play the move that gives you the best practical chances to win against your opponent.  Its a lot like an old pilot saying," any landing you can walk away from is a good one." in chess its is similar while outright bad moves are silly (you dont want to try and crash) you have to incoperatate the human competitive aspect into your game. Challenge yourself and your opponents to improve and find good moves, every move.

 I have outplayed multiple experts OTB only to slip because they calculated better than me and I missed a tactical shot. its a weakness of mine and one that I have started to work on more now that I am back to personal training more than training others. 

As a note Morphy got really really strong by just analyzing other players games. but yes practically play and study is needed

errr ya i do a lot of study so include me too

as a note Gata knows wayyyyy more chess than nunn does or did. gata was #3 the world at one point... scary part is what he could have done if he didnt take off 10 years. Nunn never got that high but was a very good GM (and is an exceptional writer) 

I respect Nunn trust me. I have his book of games 1st ed. and most all his other books BUT gata is on another level chess wise. Nunn is a true genius even  outside of chess. his intelligence was what made him what he was and helped him achieve his level at chess . it wasnt his limitation it was his strength.

Kamsky is one of the greatest talents that appeared in the chess scene the last couple of decades. He still plays great chess, despite having virtually no opening repertoire (for his class, that is).

Nunn was a good grandmaster, but not IMO at the league of the late Tony Miles, or Jonathan Speelman (the definition of a lazy genius).

I agree with Pfren

An amusing story to me was when Gata was making his comeback to chess after taking 10 years off  he was playing on  ICC. Even after that time normal GMs were just crushed by him. (It was amusing at first too because people accused him of cheating since it was an anon account) 
Someone asked how he was playing after such a long break. he said "I feel like I am playing like a normal 2600 player." GULP! normal .. 2600... ( 

I know how u feel, i played a KID last week, and was up the exchange, and a knight. However, I continued saccing, and attacking until it turned out i had no extra material left!

Nunn is scary smart  born in 1955  at just fifteen years of age, he proceeded to Oriel College, Oxford, to study mathematics. At the time, it was said that he was Oxford's youngest undergraduate sinceCardinal Wolsey. Graduating in 1973, he went on to gain his doctorate in 1978 with a thesis on finite H-spaces, and remained at Oxford University as a mathematics lecturer until 1981, when he became a professional chess player.

Paulgottlieb, an excellent post and the most helpful advise and commentary on my game, a sincere thanks! I recognize that I lose some of my games (less and less lately) because of an, albeit sometimes small, tactical blunder. Being two pawns ahead is all well and nice and can roll me into a fine endgame, however, if I blunder the two pawns back, I'm at square 1 again ><". I'm working at chesstempo.com to improve my tactical insight and I find it does help.

One question though, in your endgame improvement ideas, why would white 34...fxe6 35.Rxd4 instead of saving his bishop or even capture back on e6, threatening my own bishop?