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The game of chess is not merely an idle amusement; several very valuable qualities of the mind are to be acquired and strengthened by it, so as to become habits ready on all occasions; for life is a kind of chess. – Benjamin Franklin
Kevinfons at the Forum, discussing Elements of Positional Evaluation 81.1: Well I have the book! I was trying to get this one for awhile now. It was providential that the timing is now. I do not think I would have been prepared for it a year ago. I have read through the first thirty pages and I must say I am impressed. Page 12 has a passage about overprotection. It was simply put, but the lights went on! I can see the point. Thanks Dan. |
June 9th, 2002 Keeping You Up To Date! In This Issue Passion. That’s how it all started, with a passion for chess. That passion brought together three friends and one great idea. That passion grew the idea, nourished it, crafted it, and encouraged it. And the Chessville community continues to grow. What started as an idea for a weekly ezine now encompasses an entire web site filled with information, instruction, and just plain old fun. Oh yes - there’s plenty of passion, too! Chessville is designed to meet a wide variety of chess-related needs. We have instructional materials for all phases of the game, book and software reviews, games collections and other downloads, one of the largest and best organized collection of chess-related web links, annotated games, a huge collection of chess quotes, the latest news from around the world of chess, a collection of chess wisdom, and much more. There’s even a friendly Forum, where you can discuss every aspect of this game we all love, and ask questions, voice your opinion, or just plain rant about whatever chess topic you like. Ask author, instructor, and NM Dan Heisman about his books, or his opinions on increasing OTB tourney participation. New content is being added every Sunday, and soon we’ll annex two entire new neighborhoods. Our Editor won’t let me tell you about these last two just yet, so keep a close eye out for these two new additions to Chessville. Who are we? We are chessplayers. We at Chessville firmly believe that titled players, while clearly achieving high levels of chess ability, do not necessarily make the best chess teachers. That is why our primary contributors are experienced and reflective amateurs. We believe that such players understand the game more than sufficiently to provide instruction to the “average” chess player. More importantly, they better understand what it is that the typical chess amateur wants and needs, and can communicate the relevant information as well or better than most GMs. We at Chessville make no claim to authority, nor do we attempt to rest on the laurels of official titles or ratings. Rather, we intend our instruction and information to stand on its own merits. Please join The Chessville Team, and visit Chessville. Share our passion! Each week we take an in-depth look at a chess web site. This week's review is our feature article above: A Passion For Chess! Look for our review of other sites starting next week. Chess Quotations: A HUGE collection of chess-related quotations, from the entertaining to the instructive to the bizarre. Basic Tactics: The next in our series for beginners, an introduction to a few of the most basic and common tactical motifs Online Etiquette Part Two: More advice, especially about how to deal with those occasional people you'll meet who lack manners . . . (Part 1) And more Book Reviews! Book Review: Think Like A Grandmaster Reviewed by Leopold Lacrimosa. Kotovs classic work, edited by John Nunn and reprinted by Batsford, 2001. A brief excerpt from Leopold's review: "This book is a companion to his other book “Play Like a Grand Master”, but offers a different insight into the game of chess. Here Kotov takes the reader through a journey of several of the greatest chess minds in order for us to learn how to develop our chess thinking through analysis, selection of candidate moves, positional judgment, general formulae and concrete analysis, developing a plan of attack or defense as well as a look at the endings and the selection of an opening repertoire." Read the entire review here.
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Magazine Online TWIC395 of June 3rd 2002 Mark Crowther reports. The Week In Chess (TWIC) John Watson CD Review The Chess Cafe Fred Wilson reviews Dan Heisman's new book A Parent's Guide To Chess Frank Brady responds to claims that Bobby Fischer's mother was a Communist spy. Endgame Study Carsten Hansen Checkpoint: Informater, The Lion, ECO-B 4th Edition Gary Lane Opening Lanes Yasser Seirawan annotates Kramnik-Kasparov Edward Winter Chess Notes Chess Siberia Boris Schipkov annotates Grischuk-Polgar 2002 Chessbase Ruslan Ponomariov interview with the FIDE WC Mig Greengard annotates Kasparov-Radjabov, Moscow 2002 2nd CSVN Computer Tourney - Fritz rules! Lubomir Kavalek in The Washington Post Annotates Radjabov-Dizdarevic, Sarajevo 2002 Chess World Jeroen van Dorp Annonymity on the Internet Chessopolis Randy Bauer reviews Michael de la Maza's book Rapid Chess Improvement Koneru Humpy interview. Humpy just became the youngest woman (15 years 1 month. 27 days) to qualify for the GM title. Tell us about your favorite site that you would like us to keep an eye on for you. Write: Newsletter@Chessville.com GMs are so far removed in playing strength from class players that their advice is often misguided. For the same reason that a university mathematics professor will probably not be able to teach addition as well as a first grade teacher, a GM will probably not be able to teach the basics of chess as effectively as a pedagogically inclined player who is much weaker. – Michael de la Maza |
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When the clock is ticking and there's someone sitting on the other side of the board who wants to win as much as you do, you don't rise to the level of your desire; you sink to the level of your training. – Kelly Atkins
Dan Heisman at the Forum (125.9) : mrbishop, Absolutely, that is why reading annotated games, like Chernev's is 2nd only to doing basic tactical problems in terms of helpfulness. The top five things to know at your level are: 1. Tactics If you know those five well, you can play near 2000 strength no matter how many or few opening lines you know or whether you know the Philidor or Lucena endgames (which I only learned AFTER I became an expert!). That is not to say that learning opening lines is harmful (so long as you don't get upset when people don't play them), it is just that they are not very helpful, and you get diminishing return on your study time, which you do not do for the items above.
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