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| Posted by spiral ability-tw.com 7/14/2002 22:23:09 |  Subject: Where to start?Message: I want to break apart from old habits of hack-and-slash chess but old habits are dying hard. I have tried to relearn chess but where to start? Any help on this would be highly appreciated, thank you. | ||||
| Posted by acne ability-tw.com 7/15/2002 00:26:14 | Message: i started playing chess because i love chess puzzles, so i learnt chess in middle games first, that's very exciting. then i know some openings from chess players here. now i'm learning endings. but it seems to be good to start with endings first. | ||||
| Posted by zdrak ability-tw.com 7/15/2002 01:35:38 | Message: Learn opening variations that lead directly from opening to endgame, bypassing the middlegame almost entirely. For example: Ruy Lopez exchange variation. ——— The 2011 SPICE Cup — This week I am in Lubbock, Texas, for the annual SPICE Cup Chess Tournament. SPICE stands for Susan Polgar Institute for Chess Excellence, an organization devoted to the promotion of chess education and outreach headquartered at Texas Tech University. Susan is a former Women's World Chess Champion who works alongside her husband, Paul Truong, (a strong chess master in his own right) to organize all sorts of tournaments, chess classes and chess camps. The SPICE Cup is, by far, the strongest chess tournament they organize, and it is one of the strongest tournaments held annually in the U.S. each year. This year there are three different sections, each with several grandmasters. The strongest ... Posted by sr_ajedrez | ability-tw.com 7/15/2002 04:57:14 readMessage: How to reasses your chess from Jeremy Silman the best book to start changing. if u play too many blitz cut down in half or less for a while and start analysing one game for a couple of day 1 hour a day at least. if you are already doing that and not getting to much play , play in tournaments more and play some more blitz to develop experience of the game. simply put whatever you are doing stop doing at least for a while and start doing something else. theres your habit braker. dont leave GK for nothing :O). endings are fine. also i propose to you that you study openings but not in the usual way. Look at complete games , you can group them first if you want but not necesarily, and try to determine what each move is really doing, a hint its not conceptual it is te specific thing it does say control e5(d4) then contrlol e4 (knf6) to stop an e4 pawn pushing, control d5 (c4) , e6(control d5) to help stop or weak a posible d5 push by white , knc3(prepare e4 push anyway) , Bb4 stop the e4 push anyway or c5 stop the e4 push anyway and put whites center in the spot. stuff like that. every move has a specific reason they are not just conceptual. regardz ——— Chess: the bishop sacrifice — RB: My second nomination for chess book of the year is Sacking the Citadel: The History, Theory and Practice of the Classic Bishop Sacrifice by Jon Edwards (Russell Enterprises). It always looks so tempting: the enemy knight chased from the key defensive square at f6, our bishop unobstructed on the b1-h7 diagonal, knight on f3, queen on its starting square ready to race to h5 or d3. Most of us have tried Bxh7+ at one time or other, and most of us probably have experience of messing it up. When is the sacrifice sound? What forces does White need to press home the attack? What defensive resources can Black conjure up to frustrate us? These are the questions Edwards addresses. Divided into ... Posted by spiral | ability-tw.com 7/15/2002 11:24:57 Thank youMessage: All for your advice and tips. Best of all that you wish in your futures! ——— Chess Tournament in Chicago Teaches Discipline — The 120 elementary school children sat so quietly and intently that you might have assumed this was a mass detention period. But it was chess, not confinement, in an Oak Brook hotel ballroom on Columbus Day. And the lessons learned might assist school leaders everywhere, including those attempting a systemwide resuscitation for Rahm Emanuel, Chicago’s very disciplined, if impatient, mayor. “My dream is to get in front of education decision makers and convince them to make chess part of the curriculum for K through second grade,” said Susan Polgar, the star of the show. “That’s when thinking patterns and habits are formed. It should be mandatory, like physical education.” Ms. Polgar, ... |