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When is your next upcoming tournament are you going to ? do you prepare yourself for it ?
I just played on May 2 in a 4 round swiss event nearby and yes I did a little preparation , but not much . My next planned event will be June or July , perhaps both .
Reb,
When you went beyond class A to expert and NM, what were you doing different and better than the other class A players?
Worked harder at the board and away? Came to finer understandings of the game, such as gaining positional knowledge?
Was better endgame knowledge very important getting above class A?
Any books that you found especially useful at that time?
I am not trying to be a GM , I did try to make FM while living in Europe but came up short and now no longer have any serious chess goals . I only play locally now since moving back to the US in 2011 and only a handful of events per year , most of which are 1 day events .
achja wrote:
If you were to direct a new chess film with humans as chess pieces, who would you make the King ? :
Al Pacino
Gene Wilder
Tom Cruise
Owen Wilson
Nicolas Cage
Tom Cruise is a rogue knight, moves in a bipolar L shape, never know what he'll do next
Gene Wilder is a bishop who ends up switching to the other color diagonal
Nicolas Cage is the white king being hunted:
SOMEONES TRYINA KILL ME MANN!!
Then he paints himself black to disguise himself as the other team
edit: I keep improving my story
joliepa wrote:
One thing I've NOT figured out, is where people get all the money they would need to travel through the world playing chess tournaments. I mean you do get prizes when your win.... but the math doesn't seem like it adds up.... (that is until you get a very high elo- but I mean when your serious but not neccesarily famous)...
are there scholarships? are you getting a lot of help from your family? do you do a lot of coaching? even experienced coaches have got to very expensive...
I had some support from my parents when I was younger. After 18, I was an IM and was-self sufficient through teaching and winning tournaments. Now, as a Grandmaster, I often get my travel expenses paid for in addition to a salary sometimes.
Betrix wrote:
1. Where do you get money to travel around the world and play in tournamens?
2.Can you tell something about conditions for titled players?
Conditions given by organizers except sometimes I pay to play good players and gain experience. It's pretty standard for me to get hotel+meals. Less common is airfare- it depends on the tournament. In Europe it is not as big a deal as transportation is pretty cheap.
SaintMark wrote:
What do you think of Mark's Opening?
(There's an entry in Chessopedia on it, in case you're not familiar with it.)
It's OK. Can be played on occasion but not as a main weapon.
Pr0bl3m wrote:
What are the differences in skills, generally speaking, between titled players? I have wondered this for a while. 2000-players to Magnus Carlsen look the same from down here...
It's hard to say but the reality is there is usually a small difference everywhere(calculation,understanding,openings) once you reach the master level and people are well-rounded. Until then, some guys are 'specialists' who happen to do quite well with it.
littledragons wrote
+1
How many games? Any coaches?
Probably 100,000 online games. Over 500 tournament games. I've had two coaches and both were Serbian.
yureesystem wrote:
When you were expert was it hard to get to master level. I believe for a lot experts this the hardest to attain master level. The coveted level for a lot players master level Very few players can reach grandmaster level but expert or master I think it is attainable. What did you do to go from expert to master?
I had weak openings and was weak psychologically. I started to improve openings but the psychological part was hard. It took a lot of losses and I eventually overcame it without getting very mad at myself.
killercrab wrote:
What's Black's strategy in the slav defense Moscow variation?? I always end up in a worse endgame
I don't want to get into very sepcific opening questions so I'd recommend checking out the games of strong players in this variation. The one hint I'll give is Black's whole plan is related to the two bishops and eventually opening the lines for them.
Jibril_san wrote:
Where do you get titles from if there are no chess communities near by and can't travel often?
Study hard and play online. Use your few chances to travel wisely! You can really improve a lot at home with chess databases and good internet competition.
vjekpleh wrote:
When you look back on your "sub-2200" times, what mistakes did you make the most often and what mistakes were hardest to correct?
I would play too fast in good positions.
I would undervalue the two bishops
I would ignore the psychological part of chess. In my head I never considered what would be more unpleasant for my opponent rather than what is best for me.
Hardest to correct was definitely the realization of good positions. I studied a lot of Karpov's games to try to fix that.
onrainbow wrote:
GM Hansen,
What do you think of playing online rapid (G/10) games for improving otb chess?
I think online chess with the right mindset is definitely something that can help your chess. I am not part of the group that thinks blitz is bad; I became a very good player partly because of it.
I have often seen others ask why GMs and IMs dont participate more in the threads here and I think this thread gives a very good answer to that question . Its no wonder the OP has apparently given up on answering questions here , many of which are idiotic trolling trash that have nothing to do with chess .
+1 can I ask you a question ?