What a novel concept...deciding to study all of chess.
idea of mine ...position execises ??
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That's essentially what Michael Stean's "Simple Chess" and Silmans reassess books do... give you positions where you have to find the correct (or a strong-thematic) idea. I'm sure there are other books like this out there as well.
yeah the fun thing is sometimes there is a tactic, they just dont tell you
intresting what level of play is michael stean book aimed for?
I'd say it's good for 1400-1600 and would still have useful examples for players up to 1800.
Just my opinion.
It's not a positional chess puzzle book so to speak, you'd have to try to "solve" the diagrams before continuing to read.
I have a book "Test your Positional Play" by Bellin and Ponzetto which may be more along the lines of what you're thinking of, but aimed a little higher than Steans book, maybe 1600-1800.
May not be in print though, but supposedly there are lots of books out there like this (I just don't know the names ;)
One often suggested method of study is to cover up one player's moves, and guess their move (and plan). So essentially you could do this with any master game and never buy anything.
Arctor wrote: http://innokuo.altervista.org/chesshero.html just what the docter ordered hey is it possible to feed it positions from my own past games? i figure i can learn more from positions ive come across more than once.
Arctor wrote: http://innokuo.altervista.org/chesshero.html just what the docter ordered hey is it possible to feed it positions from my own past games? i figure i can learn more from positions ive come across more than once.
chessmaster102 wrote:
Arctor wrote: http://innokuo.altervista.org/chesshero.html just what the docter ordered hey is it possible to feed it positions from my own past games? i figure i can learn more from positions ive come across more than once.
Arctor wrote: http://innokuo.altervista.org/chesshero.html just what the docter ordered hey is it possible to feed it positions from my own past games? i figure i can learn more from positions ive come across more than once.
Yes, you can feed in any database you have...World Championship matches, Fischer's best games, an endgame database, bongcloud games etc. and it will pick random positions from the games to test you
But it scores you vs what a computer thinks is the best move? IMO not the best way to practice positional chess. Better to load a WC game and compare yourself to what the humans chose and any annotations available.
waffllemaster wrote:
But it scores you vs what a computer thinks is the best move? IMO not the best way to practice positional chess. Better to load a WC game and compare yourself to what the humans chose and any annotations available.
Yes, you can look at the game continuation and annotations, if available, are included.
I have no idea how the scoring works, all I know is it gives you a random position from a game in your database and asks you to find the best move, which I find extremely useful (and flexible)
my idea is by getting a certain position and just the position from a old game with NO tactics to be found and just figure out what the winning IDEAL SET-UP/FORMATION was ?