monday monday monday
didn’t study as much as i wanted to this weekend, but that’s ok, i will hit it hard this week. my new thing, for this week anyway, is to take a position from a game, early on, maybe somewhere from move 6 – 10, and really study it, burn it into my brain. i look at all the possible moves for white and formulate a plan. then i look at all the possible moves for black and formulate a plan. i pick what i think is the best move then i check the next moves in the book to see if i’m close.
the other reason i am studying positions is: “if you have to think of the next move, you’ve already lost. let the masters from the last 100 years play the game for you, make thier moves.” this was told to me and it clicked, i found chess enlightenment. i have to study positions and what moves are best, and know them, deep in my bones, so when i see the position, i already know the plan and what moves are best. the more i know, the more choices i have of moves. for example:
in the zurich tournament 1953 book, there is the najdorf -petrosian game, king’s indian. on move 12 black moves c7-c5, which it turns out is a serious positional error. later in the book is a najdorf – geller game, they reach the exact same position, but on move 12 of that game, black playes R – b4 instead and kicks some ass. so, if i ever get into that position, i now know not to play c5.
perhaps this is all obvious to everyone, but i just learned it, and now my study and focus will be a bit different, but guided. i’m kind of excited.
i still don’t know my provisional rating from the tournament, i hope it’s posted this week. i will enter the “ye old pueblo” tournament, coming up in july, i’ll enter the under 1400 section. i hope to do much better.
i gotta go study some games now.
takchess said,
June 4, 2007 at 1:46 pm
I intend to study just the King Indian games in this book initially to maximize the effort spent. I hope to post 2 recent King Indian games I played on my blog which both left me with material advantage in the opening against higher rated players. They were my games to lose and thats what ended up happening in both. No fault of the opening just blunders.
www.gettingto2000.blogspot.com said,
June 4, 2007 at 6:35 pm
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chessloser said,
June 5, 2007 at 11:09 am
takchess – i’d like to see those games…i think i’ll make the kings indian part of my repetoir (first i need a repetoir)…
getting to 2000 – thanks for stopping by, i hope you stop by again sometime…
Tenebride said,
June 6, 2007 at 7:35 am
Hi, i tried to get over this book as well, i mean Zurich tournament 1953 but it is not very good when one is under 2000. Finally i found that the books by Tarrasch
,”300 Chess Games” for example, suit me better to train the position evaluation.
Another nice book(almost forgotten) is Znosko-Borovsky “The middlegame in chess”.
I am leaving this message just to say that i like your style and i hope you will enjoy
playing and studying chess and continue blogging!
chessloser said,
June 7, 2007 at 8:33 am
tenebride – thanks for the tip on the znosko-borovsky book, and thanks for stopping by and leaving the message. i hope you come back and note as much as you want to…..
Brian H. said,
June 9, 2007 at 5:25 pm
“if you have to think of the next move, you’ve already lost.”
I’ve made moves without thinking..but I’ve never won with them
Brian