I like that they are keeping their skating rink clean. Very considerate of them.
I need Help to 1600 from EVERYONE
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Got it in the salsa dip to.
Maybe you could hire some curlers to come and sweep it up? Offer them some tea if it takes too long.
ImNotaFish wrote:
Jamie Its called "Curling" Its an intensely confusing sport.
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Brooms, teapots and not a single can of aquanet in site. No wonder it's so confusing.
Jun 24, 2014
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kleelof wrote:
ImNotaFish wrote:
Jamie Its called "Curling" Its an intensely confusing sport.
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Brooms, teapots and not a single can of aquanet in site. No wonder it's so confusing.
Aqua Net!! That's so 80's. Get yourself a Bed Head BH101 by Tigi.
80's? My mother was using that stuff in the 60's. I believe gel wad the word in the 80's. Just remember Flock Of Seagulls.
I had a look at the first game.
I should take up curling immediately.
The second game was more logical. White was winning and then he gave you his pawns.
You pushed up lots of weak pawns that created weaknesses. Anyalse your games and you can be 1600 easy. Do tactics and more positional work
Its true. You hit one milestone, you'll crave the next one just as fiercely. When I was near 1400 on FICS, the 1600 players looked like demi-gods. 1600 became the goal. When I passed it, 1800 became the ultimate new target. When I passed that, it became 2000.
Now I'm trying first to get back to the 1800 correspondence rating I had this time last year, but only as a stepping stone to 2000. If, or when, I reach it I tell myself I will be content... nirvana will have been attained.
But ... if I ever hit 2000 it won't be high enough. Ratings are to chess geeks what crack cocaine is to junkies. Its never enough.
ImNotaFish wrote:
Yedddy I appreciate your worthless comments <1600 proves my point.
Scottrf what do you personally play in response to d4,e4?
QGD and Open games (1...e5).
ImNotaFish wrote:
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Oh, so you're Mazer75!
Jun 25, 2014
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Dan Heisman, who is a National Master and a famous chess instructor said the most important thing in chess is safety. If you can keep from losing even a pawn in your games, your rating will go up considerably. Heisman does videos for chess.com and ICC so you might want to catch some of his videos. And if you're rich, you should try to get him to teach you. He only charges 100 bucks an hour. I can't afford him, not being rich, but I do like to watch his vids.
Don't lose a pawn is great advice. Add to that don't get checkmated and your rating should shoot up.
ImNotaFish wrote:
It will end there. because According to the Russians 1600 knows how to play chess. I just want to get that far so when someone asks me " Do you know how to play chess?" I can say "DO I EVER!!!!"
They mean in real life not Internet standard. Anyway I'll look at one of the games:
haha back on topic....any player who is 1600 or 1800 and wants to get better needs to hone their focus. I just created a blog over the topic yesterday.
www.advancedchesstraining.blogspot.com
DrFrank124c wrote:
Dan Heisman, who is a National Master and a famous chess instructor said the most important thing in chess is safety. If you can keep from losing even a pawn in your games, your rating will go up considerably. Heisman does videos for chess.com and ICC so you might want to catch some of his videos. And if you're rich, you should try to get him to teach you. He only charges 100 bucks an hour. I can't afford him, not being rich, but I do like to watch his vids.
I have a few of Heisman's books (he is a very good writer).
A few relevant quotes from "Back to Basics: Tactics:"
- "The most important principle in chess is safety; second is activity..."
- "If you learn to do the little things in chess: take your time, count the material effect of your move, check for basic tactics, and you will soon find that these things are not so little;"
- "Most games between lower rated players are won, or could be won, on basic tactics; so studying basic tactics is extremely important."
I would stress, in the last quote, basic tactics. In studying tactics, I've found I attained the quickest, and most substantial, improvement by spending half an hour on puzzles I could solve, on average, in 30 seconds or less (completing about 60 in 30 mins) than by trying to work through difficult puzzles where I might find the solution within about 10 minutes, and complete maybe 3 or 4 in the same 30 minutes.
Studying many, many elementary tactics problems (50+ per day, every day), is not an unattaible block of time for study for most people, since this takes all of about 30 mins when puzzles of the proper difficulty are chosen. Which builds pattern recognition, which creates the potential to quickly spot tactical opportunities, or potential ones, in positions where you would otherwise miss them.
Over time, it also gives you the ability to recognize different tactics that can be combined to create more complex combinations, and to more quickly and efficiently solve the more complex problems that you can eventualy work into your study (where at that point you are ready to improve the depth and accuracy of your calculation ability).
Macer is fine now