But I think about chess a lot, turn it over in my mind, and I'm convinced that this has strengthened my game.
A real program of study, or a strong player to help me with openings would probably do wonders for my game.
What kind of chess training have you done?
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Jan 11, 2017
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I never had any coaching whatsoever and as a lazy person my only training has been to try to hash out some kind of opening repertoire because I don't like swimming in the opening in tournaments.
But I think about chess a lot, turn it over in my mind, and I'm convinced that this has strengthened my game.
A real program of study, or a strong player to help me with openings would probably do wonders for my game.
But I think about chess a lot, turn it over in my mind, and I'm convinced that this has strengthened my game.
A real program of study, or a strong player to help me with openings would probably do wonders for my game.
Jan 11, 2017
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Decades ago (in the 1970s) I used to teach chess at chess clubs. I made enough money at it that it was worthwhile travelling from province to province doing it at different clubs.
I found that teaching chess is the best way to learn it, because you need to break things down into concepts and elements in order to organize it for teaching... and this helped my own chess enormously.
Jan 14, 2017
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I have been playing for roughly a year after learnign how the pieces moved. All I have done is read chess.com threads. It has helped me a lot! Im planning on reading 20 chess.com threads per day this year to become CM or FM if I read 30 per day!
Jan 14, 2017
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blueemu escribió:
Decades ago (in the 1970s) I used to teach chess at chess clubs. I made enough money at it that it was worthwhile travelling from province to province doing it at different clubs.
I found that teaching chess is the best way to learn it, because you need to break things down into concepts and elements in order to organize it for teaching... and this helped my own chess enormously.
2017-60s = 1957
Is that when you were born? You have lived trough so many cool STUFFF. LUCKY DUDE.
Jan 14, 2017
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1956, yeah. I still remember watching the Apollo moon missions live on TV.
Jan 14, 2017
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I used to review every game I played in great detail without an engine. I don't really study chess, I used to watch chess videos if I was bored. I usually play rapid games and blitz. I don't have an official rating yet OTB, but I expect it to be 1800+.
Jan 14, 2017
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eaguiraud escribió:
I used to review every game I played in great detail without an engine. I don't really study chess, I used to watch chess videos if I was bored. I usually play rapid games and blitz. I don't have an official rating yet OTB, but I expect it to be 1800+.
How long have you been doing that?
Jan 14, 2017
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blueemu escribió:
1956, yeah. I still remember watching the Apollo moon missions live on TV.
DUDE, YOU ARE SO LUCKY!
Today's championships are for sissies. Imagine the EMOTION of seeing Spassky play the Hippo against Petrosian, LOL!
Jan 14, 2017
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BronsteinPawn wrote:
I used to do those things, until I got to 1800 on chess.com. You can see on my rapid stats exactly how much time it took, I started on Dec 2014.
eaguiraud escribió:
I used to review every game I played in great detail without an engine. I don't really study chess, I used to watch chess videos if I was bored. I usually play rapid games and blitz. I don't have an official rating yet OTB, but I expect it to be 1800+.
How long have you been doing that?
I started like 20 years ago, just playing for fun but I hated to lose so started playing a lot on the internet, thinking that practice would make me better. Doing so I manage to win to the ones I couldnt before but it was not enough, so I started reading books and practicing tactics. Then I managed to win to all my friends but then in the club results were different. So I started taking classes and improved my results. Now I am just playing blitz and watching youtube classes, my progress stopped, I am in a kind of plateau or even going worst.
Would you care to answer:
1)What kind of chess training have you done or have you? What books?
2)Do you have a certain daily goal to study something?
3) How fast games do you play? Only blitz or also rapid and longer...?
4)Do you have some kind of goal increase rating?
1) Chess training
I am 35 and generally I have just done these things:
-Studied maybe 50 pages of Endgame Manual of Dvoretsky, although it's a great book
-Studied couple other books as well: 2 chess geniuses (Alekhine and Capablanca) and Karpov's games
-Also I have studied part of Combinative motifs and some other stuff fastly...
-Analysed lot of my losses
-Studied tons and tons openings theory, because it was a kind of specific hobby of mine
2+4)Goals on training and rating
Now my goal is to study about at least 30 mins strategy and tactics (Dvoretsky again) daily to try increase my rating. I try to be realistic and hope IM title in 3 years, but it's possible it will not happen.
3)Playing games
Blitz, rapid, but also longer in net. Plus once standard tourney in a month.
No need to answer every question, but I hope at least 1
Free talk fine as well.