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| Posted by wschmidt www6conf.org 3/02/2007 13:02:50 Play online chess |  Subject: Novice Nook # 47Message: By the way, in my capacity as founder of the Chess Coaching Club, I'm thinking I'd like to come up with about 12 of the Novice Nook articles as a core group of articles for folks I'm coaching to read over the course of 3 month coaching program. I'd appreciate it if any of you who have been reading along would make any recommendations about which articles would be good for that purpose. Post here or send me a PM. Thanks and have a good weekend. Here's the link: -> www.chesscafe.com |
| Posted by cascadejames www6conf.org 3/03/2007 12:12:16 Play online chess | 7.Qb1 Message: NN #47 is useful to me as a recap of some earlier points. I learn best with repetition. But I had trouble following this week's exercise. So far as I can tell, after 4.Qxc4, white's queen does not move again until move 7, and then he says it moves to b1. Obviously the Q cannot move from c4 to b1 in one move. Am I doing something wrong or should it really be 7.Qb3. As far as the articles that have been most useful to me, I would say that generally I have benefited from those emphasizing tactics. I am sure that comes as no surprise to teachers like Heisman and Wschmidt. In particular have been helped by: "The Seeds of Tactical Destruction;" "Revisiting the Seeds of Tactical Destruction;" and "The Underrated Removal of the Guard." I will try to add links to these in a moment. I played chess seriously about 40 years ago, then put it aside because of lack of time. Now I have taken it up again and have been relearning. I am discovering that most of what I retained over my long vacation is limited to strategy. That may be because when I was a boy, I didn't need to think about tactics. They just seemed to appear in my head, so I never thought about tactics in any formal way. Now I have had to add some structure to my tactical thinking and I have definitely noticed a difference. |
| Posted by cascadejames www6conf.org 3/03/2007 12:30:07 Play online chess | references to favorites Message: -> www.chesscafe.com "Revisiting the Seeds of Tactical Destruction;" Jan 2003 #24 -> www.chesscafe.com and "The Underrated Removal of the Guard." Sept. 2001 #8 -> www.chesscafe.com ——— Chess Championship Match Remains Tied After Game 3 Is Drawn — After two decisive games, Game 3 of the World Chess Championship match in Sofia, Bulgaria, ended peacefully Tuesday with a draw. The match score in the best-of-12 match is now 1.5-1.5. Veselin Topalov of Bulgaria, the challenger, had White, as in Game 1, and again opened with 1 d4. Viswanathan Anand of India, the chess champion, who had blundered badly in Game 1 after he used the Grunfeld Defense, switched openings in Game 3, opting for the solid Slav Defense. Topalov tried to steer the game toward complicated and unclear positions, which he likes, by offering a pawn sacrifice at a couple of junctures. But Anand avoided any risks, declining Topalov’s offers and ... |