Oh, Mine was : Chess is 99% Tactics! that helped me a lot!
What's the best chess advice you ever got?
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Probably: "Don't bother trying to learn that crap."
Mar 13, 2010
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Why does everyone focus on tactics and strategy? That is not all that chess is about. Many of the choices we make in chess are influenced by emotion.
Anyway, I really don't know because I've received a lot of good advice from Josh Waitzkin's academy in Chessmaster. Phrases such as, "Your opponent's position is like a car teetering on a cliff, and you need to throw the feather just right to knock it off," have really helped. Chessmaster has really helped me in playing chess, and translating it into real life situations.
Mar 13, 2010
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avk996 wrote:
Why does everyone focus on tactics and strategy? That is not all that chess is about. Many of the choices we make in chess are influenced by emotion.
Anyway, I really don't know because I've received a lot of good advice from Josh Waitzkin's academy in Chessmaster. Phrases such as, "Your opponent's position is like a car teetering on a cliff, and you need to throw the feather just right to knock it off," have really helped. Chessmaster has really helped me in playing chess, and translating it into real life situations.
Interesting...I'd like to know more about this "chessmaster"...
Mate your opponent's King!!!
That is the best advice I have ever got!!
polydiatonic wrote:
I don't understand why you think you're such amazing arbiter of what a coach should tell his student. How in the world do you know why this coach told his student to play defensively. I can see by your rating that you're a decent player. Can you really not conceive of a situation where a coach might advise his student to practice playing defensive styled chess??
Here, let me help: Perhaps this student was playing too wildly. Perhaps the coach thought the student might benefit from learning how to play with an extra large dose of restraint in an effort to show him a part of the game that he was missing. Jeez. Open your mind a little bit.
Hmmm... Yeah, my bad. I rushed into a conclusion of what the context was based on not very much. Sorry everyone.
And you'll gain a rich intuitive sense and understanding of where the pieces should go in all kinds of positions, even middlegame.
Mar 13, 2010
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nuclearturkey wrote:
polydiatonic wrote:
I don't understand why you think you're such amazing arbiter of what a coach should tell his student. How in the world do you know why this coach told his student to play defensively. I can see by your rating that you're a decent player. Can you really not conceive of a situation where a coach might advise his student to practice playing defensive styled chess??
Here, let me help: Perhaps this student was playing too wildly. Perhaps the coach thought the student might benefit from learning how to play with an extra large dose of restraint in an effort to show him a part of the game that he was missing. Jeez. Open your mind a little bit.
Hmmm... Yeah, my bad. I rushed into a conclusion of what the context was based on not very much. Sorry everyone.
Thanks for "manning up" there. I appreciate it.
Well I think nuclear was just trying to say just because a coach is stronger than the student doesn't give him a right to impose his style on you just for the hell of it. If there's a clear purpose for it that's perfectly fine.
Mar 14, 2010
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Elubas wrote:
Well I think nuclear was just trying to say just because a coach is stronger than the student doesn't give him a right to impose his style on you just for the hell of it. If there's a clear purpose for it that's perfectly fine.
I didn't have any problem understanding his "point". Not sure why you thought this needed clarification, but okay.
Yes he was.
Telling your students to play in a certain style is not good. Let them find their preferences.
I don't understand why you think you're such amazing arbiter of what a coach should tell his student. How in the world do you know why this coach told his student to play defensively. I can see by your rating that you're a decent player. Can you really not conceive of a situation where a coach might advise his student to practice playing defensive styled chess??
Here, let me help: Perhaps this student was playing too wildly. Perhaps the coach thought the student might benefit from learning how to play with an extra large dose of restraint in an effort to show him a part of the game that he was missing. Jeez. Open your mind a little bit.