Or a Shortcut to chess Improvement. I will try not to waste your time and keep this short. But I think the approach suggested below offers hope and a logical method to improve quickly. This is for those players rated below 1700, given that mos...
I can do it, or you can do it, either way we can benefit. This sort of service should already be in bookstores, but I don’t see it there yet. I’m talking about chess problem diagrams on index cards. We see all kinds of study tools in bookstores...
Any visitor who is visiting a large city can usually find chess activity at the local park. However, small towns don’t have such areas. You can point them in the right direction by developing a chess information brochure and posting it at your loc...
I never heard of a “study group”, until I saw the movie “Paper Chase”, about Harvard students in law school. I think the study group is an excellent idea, where participants save time and effort by sharing their knowledge. It is not just the s...
To specialize or not to specialize….? They say, that if you want to improve our chess performance, you should know many openings and defenses, and that specialization should come later. So that you become balanced and well rounded player. I do...
Is chess becoming too knowledge intensive? Much depends on your experience. Some experienced players claim chess is a matter of knowing what to do, as opposed to logical deduction. Others say that logical play is the main key to quality play...
Everybody knows that speed chess is shallow, and that it is not real chess, like postal chess. …. Ok, just kidding. I like speed chess, but I use it for practice, to get rid of my blunders and obvious sight moves. And when I do pl...
They say chess is a matter of experience. I don’t like it, but then I’m only rated 1400 OTB USCF. Has anyone ever proposed using less tactical problems for study? Most books suggest minimum of 400 problems for study for tournament player. I ...
After viewing many tactical position problems, I noticed that many of them were similar. So I started to select only those tactical positions that show one or three postitions for the same tactical theme (fork, X-ray, pin, decoy, etc.). But, l...
They said chess programs would never play better than grandmasters, but that has all changed....And then this got me thinking about….. Science fiction writer Douglas Adams in his book Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy, says the earth is giant compu...
