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You got to 1900 without ever reading a chessbook?
Mar 8, 2008
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It kinda came naturally.. I'm one of those geeks/nerds who spent their lunch in the chess club and finished school two years early :)
The masterpiece of positional chess would be "My System" by Nimzowitsch. It is probably the most discussed and famous chess book of all time. it deals with all the nuances of positional, rather than tactical chess. I read it many years ago, and judging by our games; I should look into it again!
Ludek Pachman: Modern Chess Strategy.
Jeremy Silman: How to reasses your chess.
Jeremy Silman: Reasses your chess, workbook.
Those 3 are the best in my oppinion.
ih8sens wrote: It kinda came naturally.. I'm one of those geeks/nerds who spent their lunch in the chess club and finished school two years early :)
1900 without reading a book, huh? The more probable reason--cheating! Go to RedHotPawn.com and see why he was banned from that site: engine use. You even said in your profile that you jump from thing to thing without ever staying on one thing too long. All the evidence seems to point at you having help.
Mar 9, 2008
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65th_square wrote: ih8sens wrote: It kinda came naturally.. I'm one of those geeks/nerds who spent their lunch in the chess club and finished school two years early :)
1900 without reading a book, huh? The more probable reason--cheating! Go to RedHotPawn.com and see why he was banned from that site: engine use. You even said in your profile that you jump from thing to thing without ever staying on one thing too long. All the evidence seems to point at you having help.
We've already covered this.... besides.. If I was a cheater why am I in the forums looking for help? Your answer "you're a 'smart' cheater" .. well then why didn't I change my handle from over at rhp..
If I was THAT smart to mess with you guys like that I wouldn't cheat!
Okay bye...
To get better I suggest you turn off Fritz and open a chess book.
Mar 10, 2008
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#9
you don't think I'm a cheater too now?! Cmon... if I wanted to use fritz I'd go find a CC site that lets you use engines... frankly I find that type of chess boring.
If you truly believe I cheat run it through erik, not the forums!
I'll second the recommendation for Silman's How to Reasses Your Chess. It's good stuff.
I've heard nothing but good things about Pachman's Modern Chess Strategy, but I'm afraid to read my copy for fear of destroying it. :( (Stupid out of print books.) I do wish that someone would produce a modern version of it with algebraic notation, though. It takes me twice as long to read books in descriptive notation.
well, you could be "asking for help" because you are tired of cheating ans actually want to learn now?
Or you could be just saying this to throw us off that you are not cheating ;)
It's not long before everyone from RHP joins the bandwagon. Soon the thread would look like a witch hunt. The only way to determine whether or not a person is cheating, to me, is to play the person somewhere in playchess.com or somewhere where they could detect engine use and compare it with how he plays in CC. It's nearly hopeless to prove someone cheating. They might be using it for a move, two moves... less the person has a GM rating and understands nothing about chess.
pinkerton wrote: It's not long before everyone from RHP joins the bandwagon. Soon the thread would look like a witch hunt. The only way to determine whether or not a person is cheating, to me, is to play the person somewhere in playchess.com or somewhere where they could detect engine use and compare it with how he plays in CC. It's nearly hopeless to prove someone cheating. They might be using it for a move, two moves... less the person has a GM rating and understands nothing about chess.
He was banned from the site for engine use, that is a fact.
Use the information as you wish.
Mar 10, 2008
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Pawn Power in Chess, by Hans Kmoch
Any discussion about classic positional books begins with My System and continues with this. Both come recommended by GM Kaidanov
Mar 11, 2008
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#15
Here's an interesting point brought up in a conversation I had with someone recently on here... I copied and pasted an excerp... I doubt it will help my case but at the same time I really don't care, a honest statistical evaluation will prove that I do not cheat.
Everyone has the right to cheat at chess... by agreeing to the Terms of Service you simply agree that the site has the rights to remove service from you if you do cheat. If you were to cheat and then get banned, your 'sentence' is served...
So... In conclusion... Quit bugging me!
That's not how the online chess community works Matt. I suggest you change your username if you want to escape your label.
The Kmooch book seems to evoke either love or hate. Doesn't seem to be much middle ground. I haven't had a chance to read it yet, but it does sound... quirky. :) Everything I hear about Soltis' Pawn Structure Chess is superlative, though. (Both books in my library... haven't read either... that makes me a sad panda.)
I bought Soltis's book, though I have yet to crack it open. I researched both Kmoch's and Soltis's book and the general consensus around the net is that Soltis makes a heck of a lot more sense than Kmoch.
Mar 12, 2008
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Well great! I guess I'll start with reassess your chess (eventually!)
Thanks for the help guys... although I can't thank everyone... there are a few of you who I'd rather go jump off a cliff but we won't go there now :).
-Matt
Cheat, cheat, cheat! what is the problem with here ? Why everybody believes everyone else cheating ? I had never read any book once until i was 18 or more but i had approximately 1500+ rating when i was 13-14. (There can't be any cheat it was my official rating!) Eventhough i had no knowledge about opening, i wasn't too good in tactics (i had not solved any tactics puzzle either.) Although i could mate with R or N+B or B+B and could play simple 1,2,3 pawn endings i wasn't good at the endgame either.
I've reached around a 1900 playing level at this point and I'm estatic at such quick improvement (less than 2 years)..
What I've noticed though is that, although I am hardly ever missing tactics anymore (for or against).. every once in a while my opponents make moves that I simply can't beat.. they produce moves that although not missing an actual tactic I can't do anything about without giving up material.. it's very annoying :P
Anyways, I feel that the best way to improve from here is to be able to do this back to them every once in a while via positional play... I am of the opinion that positional play is really just distant, non-intuitive (as much of my play is), tactics.
For starters, I've never read a chess book... maybe I should.
Any tips or suggestions?