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Good stuff, bb_gum... How advanced were you when you read Pachman and Soltis? Did you like the order in which you read them?
PiotrIlyich wrote:
Faridouzz wrote:
I really need help, does anyone one you have a series of videos on planning? When to spot the right plan? How to spot it?
I really need to find a good series of videos or articles or whatever I have to do to improve strategically because after some meditation and thinking, I've come to the conclusion that training your calculating skills is useless if you don't know what and when to calculate, in fact it only makes you develop bad habits, so my first goal right now is to develop a mature strategical sense of reading the board then I can work on other skills... I really need help here
Your conclusions are wrong.
Trying to understand how to form a strategical plan before you've got a good handle on tactics is like trying to learn how to run before you have grown legs. Strategical and positional play are what's left once your tactics and sense of danger get to a point where you don't blunder material every other move. Strategy is all about building small advantages and these advantages are totally meaningless if you don't make sure everything is properly defended when it needs to be.
Let me explain that point a little bit further, during a game, if you have good calculation and visualization skills, they won't serve for nothing if you can't read the board and realize where's your opponents weaknesses and your own weaknesses... that's what I mean, because I've been working on my tactics this last month, and I realized that before you can master tactics and combiantions, you have to have a good read of the board first, I mean at least during the game, because solving puzzles can work for you just fine, but how will you get yourself into that puzzle position during in the game if you don't have a good strategical understanding of the game?
Jul 8, 2017
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You need to know the things that go into strategies: controlling a key square, occupying a key Knight Outpost, attacking the opponent's kings with pieces when both players castle on the same side and with pawns when castling is on opposite sides, recognizing imbalances like local material superiority, etc.
Personally, I need improvement in strategy and am studying Seirawan's Winning Chess Strategies and Silman's How to Reassess Your Chess, 4th Ed, and Fred Wilson's Simple Attacking Plans.
MickinMD wrote:
You need to know the things that go into strategies: controlling a key square, occupying a key Knight Outpost, attacking the opponent's kings with pieces when both players castle on the same side and with pawns when castling is on opposite sides, recognizing imbalances like local material superiority, etc.
Personally, I need improvement in strategy and am studying Seirawan's Winning Chess Strategies and Silman's How to Reassess Your Chess, 4th Ed, and Fred Wilson's Simple Attacking Plans.
Thank you that was very helpful!
I also have a collection of courses by GM Igor Smirnov that I downloaded on torrent and I find it very instructive and effective too, if you want to check it out just PM me
I really need help, does anyone one you have a series of videos on planning? When to spot the right plan? How to spot it?
I really need to find a good series of videos or articles or whatever I have to do to improve strategically because after some meditation and thinking, I've come to the conclusion that training your calculating skills is useless if you don't know what and when to calculate, in fact it only makes you develop bad habits, so my first goal right now is to develop a mature strategical sense of reading the board then I can work on other skills... I really need help here