Bullet chess: One minute to mate. by Nakamura/Harper
Very entertaining
Have you EVER really finished reading any Chessbook??
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In my dictionary "consumate" is an adjective meaning to complete or perfect. So, yes, it is possible to consumate a chess book.
Jan 9, 2015
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For everyone who wants to study tactics: http://www.chess.com/blog/Till_98/huge-tactics-training
Cheers!
Jan 10, 2015
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#165
Freddy_the_Viking wrote:
In my dictionary "consumate" is an adjective meaning to complete or perfect. So, yes, it is possible to consumate a chess book.
Get a room!
Never really read any chess book!!! Am i the only one?
@DrSpunik: lol
@azimshaikh: You are in good company as apparently Capablanca didn't read chess books either and he did very well regardless.
Not true of course. He even wrote a great one.
Jan 11, 2015
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I own about 100 books on chess, but it's been a long time since I've had any inclination to finish one of them (to be honest, since I have opened one): there are so many subjects so much better worth the time. There's nothing wrong with studying chess for fun, but I would point out that there are other things to study that give you more than the possibility of a slight ego boost.
My System, Capablanca's Best Chess Endings, Bobby Fischer's Games of Chess.....cover to cover, that's it.
Uhohspaghettio1 wrote:
Relax, it was an attempt at a playful observation of the use of the word consummate (as in to consummate a marriage), to conjure up a funny image of a man and his love for his chess books stepping over the boundaries of normal social convention (something I thought might be mildly appreciated in a thread like this). It was not intended to be a personal attack at all, so I apologise if it came across that way.
Legendary_Race_Rod wrote:
Uhohspaghettio1 wrote:
I think a big part of the addiction to and obsession with chess is the nagging feeling that you've never fully been able to consummate chess books and chess theory the way it's supposed to be done. That you've never actually gone through the books properly and fully, your opening repertoire doesn't quite come together in a way that makes playing eg. the London System significantly bad, because you wouldn't be competent enough to turn the small advantages into wins anyway nearly all the time. You can't really evaluate or review most chess books very well because you're not at that level yet. So there's always this nagging feeling that you're not really a proper chessplayer yet.
Then if you go the whole way and do all this stuff and become good enough to actually talk about and have decent opinions on chess... there's no hope for you. It's got you in its clutches and won't leave go until death.
Consummate chess books? That goes way beyond obsession and addiction. That's just plain weird.
What are you talking about?
Perhaps we have different interpretations of the meaning of the word "consummate". Maybe I'm wrong but I'm pretty sure it just means to fully complete and finalise. Even if it's only for marriage I was just using figurative speaking, no need to be like that. We are just talking about how chess can be addicting sometimes. Am I not allowed to use figurative speaking without being attacked as being "plain weird"?
I'm not obsessed at all. Try taking a look at yourself jumping at someone on the internet for using a word.
how does one consummate a chess book