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www.masschess.orgExtremely rapid chess improvement for the adult class player:A five-month program player, who is working on becoming aMaster, and would like to thank Alan I began playing tournamentD player. Here are two of my moreWhite: Herman, F.White: Oresick, R.Unfortunately, the vast majority ofparticular way, required me tochess ability.improved greatly.” I would alwaysrating improved?” Time and again,middlegame strategy, andincreasing their chess ability.openings, middlegame strategy,of fixing a car that doesn’t have anthe car looks better, but it stilldoesn’t go. A Class-player’s chess ability islack of tactical ability. As GMlower levels of play...tactical Chess Horizons 37 White to Move. www.checkerwise.co.uk)players like Kasparov. Otherfear of their opp

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onent’s ‘prepara-tion’. I really find all this quiteexperiment: Take two class CClearly, the class C player with theGM’s tactical ability will win.GM’s positional knowledge gets aC player an expert’s tacticalability, rather than a GM’s, and he You can perform a similaragainst each other, the tactical You can refine this experimentThe tactical personality, which canevery position and having a GM’schoose the former. “It’s generally — but errone-game. Actually, the best teachers Virtually all chess instructionstems, in one way or another, frommaterial prepared by GM’s. GM’s,however, have two characteristicsthat make it difficult for them tocommunicate effectively withadult player. I believe that this isyear. Since very few chess coachesment, they find it difficult to www.masschess.org Second, GM’s

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are so far re-first grade teacher, a GM willbasics of chess as effectively as ais much weaker.others, such as Dvoretsky, areplayer. Unfortunately, they oftentheir playing ability. For example, in Yermolinsky’sThe Road to Chess Improvementrunner up for this year’s BritishChess Federation Book of the Yearaward, Yermo spends severalargues that a chess player must be“real” opening. With all duerespect to Yermolinsky, this adviceis off the mark. A class D playerComprehensive ChessCourse (Vol. II): “We beg students Unfortunately, the myth thatmunity. I once saw a class Ewould have been better off settingTactics: Get rid of the bignotes, “...if you don’t improve fastclass C player. My opponent wasalso a class C player. The gamephases:1) The first eight movesrook. 6)The game continued for Fritz’s evaluatio

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n graph, whichquite different. In this game, Chess Horizons 39 White to Move involving players of differentstrengths. You will notice a Clearly, to become a good playerin your favor. Here are some othertactics: Tactical shots are easier tothe difficulty of understandingSilman’s Reassess Your Chess,from Silman’s analysis. Feel freeto check Silman’s book or anydo about the computer’s “newidea.” You will quickly learn thatthe computer has busted Silman’s(provided that you didn’t rejectSilman’s plan from the start), but Studying tactics gives you manymated? Clearly (B) is superior. IfMy opponent doesn’t know howto play chess — he didn’t castleearly.” If you learned about thegrabbing an opponent’s piece.tactical ability is worth little.tactical ability. If you are an a

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dult The first step of the study planability into your OTB play.dedication. You should study www.masschess.orgBogoljubow, E: Study, 1915[Deutsches Wochenschach] [1.exf6? gxf6 2.Bf4 h5] [1.exf6? gxf6 2.Bf4 h5]1...Bxd5 2.exf6 g5 3.fxg6 hxg64.bxa4+-; 1...h5 2.d6] 2.d6 Bc63.e6 gxf4 4.d7 c1Q 5.d8Q +-.From Grandmaster EfimBogoljubow CD-ROM, byVictor Charushin, Pickard & Vision with Micro-level Drillsimprove your Chess Vision: whatglance at the board. You will doover again. For example, basket-throw. Soccer players practiceedly. To practice simple forks andblack rook on d4. Now sequen- tric squares that the rook traces asit moves around the stationary king.The rook travels the following path:Finally, pound the attackinggames to refresh your skills. Youblack king to, say, g8 and c8, thedifficulty. The squar

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es that theconsumes time and energy thathaving an opponent’s knightat some point. Conversely, I knew Chess Horizons 41 White to Move Improve your Knight Sight byphysically hitting the squares that itfinger. Then move the knight to b1and repeat the process.I added the King’s to insertknight’s moves. Improve your Knight Sight You can prove that it takesmoves to move the knight to d4monthly basis. You can vary theexercise by changing the knight’sthey are unnecessary. The fact thatthey are trivial, however, does not          Even very strong players makesimple Chess Vision mistakes.exert any effort. So the time andenergy that you save can then be You are now finished with stepone of the five month course. You