Best Chess Teacher: September 2012

Puzzles From Karjakin

In the previous post we were talking about chess talent, and we used Grandmaster Sergey Karjakin as our example.

This time, we will go further and analyze several exciting and instructive games of his.
Your task is to find the best continuation in the positions provided below.
Are you as good as Karjakin?

After coming up with your own solutions, you may download the fully commented games here:LINK

Besides enabling you to check your solutions, these commented games will provide you with someadditional instructive ideas.

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Chess Talent

In this issue I’d like to discuss chess TALENT.

You know I receive lots of e-mails from my pupils, customers etc. Quite often people write something like:

“I think I have not enough talent to become 2200/2300… player”.

I’ve always been wondering what you mean. Could you formulate/explain it clearly?

Let me try to clarify your idea. It looks like this:

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There is a group of the best, dominant people. They are better than others “by default”. And there is a

mass of “seconds” people (you are inside of this mass). This mass is doomed from the start. Their

efforts will not change the situation anyway.

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Carlsen vs Kasparov

Why do people play chess?

Really, why? I mean it’s not necessary for human’s life; it doesn’t produce any goods etc. So why do you play chess? ( I bet you didn't expect such a question?)

Of course there are many possible answers. I’ll give you a few strong reasons

The Most Common Mistake

As a chess teacher, I analyse my pupils’ games regularly. Of course, I analyse games of other players as well. That’s why I can tell you that there are a few most common mistakes, which most of players make often. So in this lesson, I am going to tell what the most common mistake is. Well, to be honest, I am not totally sure whether it is the most common mistake or not, but it is definitely one of them. Check my new video: The Most Common Mistake

Professional Opening Preparation

Today I won some blitz games against Dominguez (who was a World blitz champion) Blitz gives us lot of fun!

OK, I’ll be more serious. Once again I’ve realized how it is important to be well prepared in an opening stage. When you play against a strong opponent, an opening preparation exerts strong influence on

the final result.

That’s why top players use 90-95% of their training time on an opening preparation. Though I don’t recommend you to do the same, it is still very important topic. In modern chess it is definitely one of

the main factors of your practical success.

I will be glad to give you some recommendations about it in the video lesson “Professional Opening

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