Pattern Recognition of Key Positions

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hreedwork

Just found this thread. Despite being six years old, there is a lot of great knowledge here (Benedictine, hicetnunc, chessmo, and others). Just purchased the referenced Chessable course. Digging in now...

Also thinking about a document with positions to boost my opening knowledge... (supplementing lines in a repertoire)...

Thanks all!

Benedictine

Thanks. I think this is my most effective Chessable course in terms of getting visible results from working with these patterns i.e they crop up a lot in games! 

I would also recommend importing your own missed patterns/blunders from your own games into a personal collection and training with those.

I think the thematic tactics sound a good idea too, but I've not had any personal experience with those yet.

hreedwork

@Benedictine, agree a collection of misses and blunders is valuable. Today, I just finished a small local OTB tournament (3 rounds SS, G55/d5) and was low on time in the first round. At around one and a half minutes, thought I saw an opportunity to breakthrough and Queen one move early (Queen race). Instead, after creating a protected passed pawn on h4 (I am black), I abandon that plan (at the time I second guessed, and then think I am one move behind), then shift to a new plan (always a cautionary tale when switching plans) which was to stop the opponent's pawn from queening. Bad enough to do this with plenty of time, but I had less than two minutes... Of course I start forgetting to hit my clock, lose time even faster and end up losing on time in a dead even position. Instead, going for the queen race (original plan) was the right thing to do, analyzing now.

Will emblazon the position of the missed opportunity on my forehead methinks!

Appreciate your guidance, and I like your course so far. Presently, half way through the first module happy.png

Benedictine

hreedwork: time scrambles like that are very diffficult. My local league controls don't have increment so I would often suffer the same, so I started playing a lot of blitz/bullet online to get used ot it (on Lichesss, not Chess.com as pre-move doesn't work for me and nobody can fix it.). I got 6500 games on Lichess and only now I am just about used to quick controls. Playing a lot of games at speed helps to close out those sorts of games.

Thanks for the positive feedback on my course. I spent a lot of time on it and it was hard work, but I do think it is very valuable as it contains core tactical patterns that crop up a lot, as I say. I think I am no.3 user on the course from 250+ people and it's one I train with all the time.

 

 

 

hreedwork

@Benedictine, thank you for sharing your experience; great encouragement!

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