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| Posted by taoistlunatic ability-tw.com 7/19/2002 15:44:10 |  Subject: OVERSIGHTSMessage: My number one biggest weakness in all my chess games, is not positional, it's not lack of opening or endgame knowledge, it is not poor calculation skills, or lack of knowledge of attacking the king in the middle game. The biggets reason I lose chess games, or draw winning positions, is OVERSIGHTS. You know the surprise move your opponent plays that you either didn't condsider becasue it looks strange, or you just had a blind spot for a moment. Has anyone had this problem in the past and found a way to train themselves to stop doing it. No matter what I try, I make these oversights, and the only thing I have tried that has had some success is taking a long thinking time on my moves. is that the only way??? Because if so I am going to have play less games and take longer to play all my games. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Posted by pamela024 ability-tw.com 7/19/2002 15:49:12 | Yes, that is the remedy. Message: Take the time required to understand your position. You must try to discipline yourself to stay with a position for a long time before you make a move. By doing this over many hundreds of games you will be able to develop a better sense of the board and be able to reduce the time you spend on each move. There is no sustitute for this hard work. Good luck. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Posted by poisonedpawn78 ability-tw.com 7/19/2002 15:54:03 | TRY ... Message: 1) looking back at all your games that you made an oversight .. was it a pin that you didnt notice ? a discovered check you could have seen sooner ? or just a "oops" move 2) to help stop "oops" moves , i find that you make all your thoughts and calcs , decide on your move .. then stop thinking , in your mind move the peice your thinking of .. then ask yourself , am i leaving a defence i shouldnt ? am i creating a fork on myself ? am i creating a pin that will hinder me ? and look at your kings safey quickly and decide if there is a mate that you can see ... if you check those 4 things out befor you actually make the move .. sometimes you will decide your move sucks , or that your move is really good . 3) pay thousands and thousands of dollars and hire a GM to personally train you to become a GM , i guarantee this method is the best , but most of the time .. not possible :P PP ——— Chess: Turning the tide — After a strong start world chess champion Vishy Anand falls to an enterprising counterattack. The world chess champion Vishy Anand only made a 50% score at the recent London Chess Classic, suffering this early defeat to the US no 1. Anand started well, but with so many pieces on the chess board and both kings compromised, a counterattack is always possible. How did Nakamura turn the game in his favour? RB: Wow, complicated. I really have no idea. Maybe – this is clutching at straws – I can march my second h-pawn down the board to try to open up the White king position? It looks promising, but then runs into the problem of White's light-square bishop, which has an eye on h3. 1…Qe8 doesn't help, because ... Posted by pippin | ability-tw.com 7/19/2002 16:12:38 talking of "oops" moves....Message: I think that poison is referring to mine :-) the way I am learning is the grilling he gives me for the blunders I make in my games. I suggest you get a higher rated player to take a look at some of your losses where you missed something and do a bit of analysis with them. It is starting to work for me. ——— On Chess: Is struggling Anand looking ahead? — Recent months haven’t been kind to reigning world chess champion Viswanathan Anand, who posted mediocre results in three consecutive chess tournaments. His last effort — the London Chess Classic, in which he scored six draws, one loss and just one win — was, in his words and by his standards, “a disaster” not befitting the status of world chess champion. No doubt he was distracted, in part, by preparations for an upcoming May title defense against Boris Gelfand in Moscow’s renowned Tretyakov art gallery — a venue that Anand hopes will inspire “ beautiful and artistic chess.” Based on their past performances in hundreds of games, Anand is an almost a 3-to-2 favorite to win the 12-game match. He also has ... Posted by taoistlunatic | ability-tw.com 7/19/2002 16:13:37 Thanks for sharing Poison and PamelaMessage: I pretty much thought so. I play some brilliant moves when I sit down and really think over the position, but since I am playing 30 games at a time, I get lazy and impatient and start banging out moves, especially in games I am winning, (and we all now how overconfidence can lose the game.) I guess I have to force myself to be patient and think, even in "won" positions. and I will definitely cut down on the amount of games I am playing at one time. I just wanted to hear some encouragement, particularly the kind pamela gives which suggests that all my thinking time will be rewarded someday in a stronger chess-mind which will take less thinking time to produce excellent moves. And since pamela is one of the top 1 % of gameknot players, I can trust she knows from experience :). You too poisoned pawn, are obviously a well-experienced player. hmmm....hire a grandmaster, not a bad idea... ——— Chess: The Year in Review — Chess again crossed paths with politics in 2011, with the most remarkable moment occurring in Tripoli, Libya, during the NATO bombing campaign against Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi. Kirsan Ilyumzhinov, the World Chess Federation president, flew to Libya in June and played Qaddafi. Ilyumzhinov had known the Libyan leader since at least 2004, and there was speculation that he was on a mission to try to end the war. The game ended in a draw, but the war continued. (Tripoli fell to the rebels two months later, and Qaddafi was killed in October.) Politics also shadowed an achievement by Ehsan Ghaem Maghami, an Iranian chess grandmaster who set a record in February by playing 614 people at ... Posted by taoistlunatic | ability-tw.com 7/19/2002 16:17:15 one more thingMessage: The club I just joined is finishing a tournament and the next tournament will be 'blitz' tournament :(. I stink at blitz, and have recently started practicing blitz chess on those "live" chess game sites. Do you guys think this is the best way to prepare for a blitz tournament, or should I focus my mind on my 'real' chess games. ——— Marc Lang catches the eye by breaking world blindfold record — When Miguel Najdorf played 45 chess games simultaneously blindfold in São Paulo, Brazil, in 1947 the exhibition took over 23 hours, including an interval for Najdorf to change his perspiration-soaked shirt and rest his eyes. Later the Hungarian Janos Flesch played 52 games without sight of the board, but his claim unravelled because many opponents resigned after a few moves, and it seemed that Najdorf's performance would never be approached. But last month a little-known 41-year-old 2300-rated German chess master, Marc Lang, toppled the record with 46 games in 21 hours. In previous years Lang set a German record, then broke George Koltanowski's historic European mark of 34 games played at ... Posted by nottop | ability-tw.com 7/19/2002 16:20:05 Spend time from viewpoint of opponentMessage: After you think you have your move look at the possiblities of your opponent. Don't just consider the replies - Think of yourself as if you were your opponent - ask yourself "Ok - now I've made this move. Now I'm my opponent and it is his (her) turn. What should I play." If this seems difficult - reread the books by Nimzovich. The whole concept of "prophylaxix" means understanding what your opponent might do. Dvoretsky also wrote at length about this - some of his students who were too wrapped up in their own plans, he had reread and restudy both books by Nimzovich. You need to ask - What is my opponent trying to do? Why did he play the move he played? The only way to get there is to think that you are hiim (her). ——— The World Chess Hall of Fame — The World Chess Hall of Fame celebrated the 10th anniversary this month in a new location in St. Louis, Missouri. The history of the Hall and portraits of inducted chess players are available on the impressive web site. When it first opened in Miami in December 2001, I was inducted there together with five great chess players: the unofficial world chess champion Paul Morphy (1837-1884) and the official ones such as William Steinitz (1836-1900), Emanuel Lasker (1868-1941), José Raúl Capablanca (1888-1942) and Robert James Fischer (1943-2008). I shared the same birth city, Prague, with Steinitz and as fate would have it, we both ended up in America. "The decision of Lubomir Kavalek not to return home from a foreign chess ... Posted by philaretus | ability-tw.com 7/19/2002 16:20:09 How about....Message: .....just playing fewer games? Posted by pamela024 | ability-tw.com 7/19/2002 18:26:31 If you only have a short Message: time to prepare for blitz, my suggestion is that you play those sites as much as possible. Note that playing different kinds of chess is better for your development (rating) than just playing one kind. Fischerandom is quite good. Good suggestion, nottop. Posted by acne | ability-tw.com 7/19/2002 20:17:39 Message: what's a blitz tournament? they play very fast? Posted by frodan | ability-tw.com 7/20/2002 07:42:25 ...reverse the chessboard...Message: ...during your analysis,using an actual chess set;you will then be looking at the board from your opponents point of view.Then try to think for him and play the best replies for him/her.i have found that this helps me a lot ..... Posted by zdrak | ability-tw.com 7/20/2002 08:40:33 good reading Message: Read Dan Heismann's "Novice Nook" columns on www.chesscafe.com Posted by frodan | ability-tw.com 7/21/2002 09:43:43 ...good reading ,for the more advanced players...Message: ...read Mark DVoretsky's "instructor" columns at www.chesscafe.com Posted by acne | ability-tw.com 7/21/2002 22:13:03 Message: that's very helpful to me, i've read endgame corner as well Posted by adrianallen | ability-tw.com 7/22/2002 06:43:56 Blitz openingsMessage: I have played a few blitz tournaments, one think that can get your opponent is unusual openings (not guaranteed though). If you are white try thinking of something like Grobs Attack (H4), I like this for Blitz, because it can put your opponent in unfamiliar territory - Just an Idea. Posted by victord | ability-tw.com 7/22/2002 07:23:44 ...---...Message: Like frodan I try to "play" both sides of the board and assume my opponet will make the best move. Posted by ajgoldsby | ability-tw.com 7/22/2002 08:17:08 THEMessage: Grob, The Bad, & The Ugly!! Grobs Attack starts with g4 :-) Posted by edmaster | ability-tw.com 7/22/2002 09:18:25 TO TAOISTLUNATICMessage: STAY AWAY FROM SPEED CHESS OR BLITZ CHESS YOUR NOT A MASTER AT SLOW CHESS YET!YOUR CHESS COMRADE EDMASTER Posted by peppe_l | ability-tw.com 7/22/2002 10:25:13 Just my opinion... Message: For learning purposes, one must play slow games. Playing too much speed chess, let alone adopting a "blitz playing style" (oddball openings, hyper-agressive attacks, direct threats) might actually hurt otb or even correspondence play. Posted by adrianallen | ability-tw.com 7/25/2002 03:49:38 Thanks ajgoldMessage: I knew that grob is G4 (just being stupid), in fact I play it quite a lot so I guess I should know it. Posted by taoistlunatic | ability-tw.com 7/26/2002 16:20:29 great suggestion nottop!Message: I have definitely started thinking of my opponent's possibilities, and am now playing strong moves which prevent my opponent's counterplay if I can see them. I have also noticed that in IM and GM annotated games, they spend almost as much of their thinking time looking at the opponent's possibilities as they do looking at their own possible moves! I have MY SYSTEM By Nimzowitsch, I will probably pick up PROPHYLAXIS another title by him I believe... Posted by taoistlunatic | ability-tw.com 7/26/2002 16:26:41 error...Message: CHESS PRAXIS, is the other book by Nimzowitsch, although Prophylaxis is an important concept which he devotes a chapter to in MY SYSTEM, his other positional training book is BLOCKADE. Posted by acne | ability-tw.com 7/28/2002 07:20:48 Message: i often miss forks and pins. will thinking of opponent's possibilities improve my play? do i have to think of all possible moves? |