Caution! Chess Maniacs!

I’m sure you have heard something about mad and obsessive people before. Modern chess players share some of these traits. Today we will discuss chess “maniacs”. 

1.Tactical maniacs. 
These are chess players who solve thousands of tactical puzzles daily. There are 2 major reasons for this mania.

–> First, it is an obvious way of training. Get a tactical puzzle, solve it, get the next one etc…. This reminds me an old dictum: “Every problem has an obvious incorrect solution”. 

This training method is really simple, BUT it takes a lot of time and gives only a little practical effect.

Ukraine Wins Women’s World Championship

Several days ago, the Women’s World Team Championship finished. The final results were:

1. Ukraine
2. China
3. Russia

A useful question we can ask ourselves is, “WHY are some teams on the podium, while others cannot reach it?”

5 Tips Taken From The Best Chess Course On The Internet

This article contains 5 important tips that will facilitate your chess learning and advancing. The material is prepared by a student of our Remote Chess Academy. He summarized the ideas that worked well for him. There’s a great chance that these tips will be helpful for you just as well.

Without further ado let me present an article of Louis Holtzhausen.

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Eastern Style

I just came back from my trip to UAE (United Arab Emirates) and would like to share 1 interesting observation with you.

Although there are not many professional chess players in Arabic countries, a lot of people enjoy this game. I mean they really ENJOY it.

People gather in a café, play chess, drink tea or coffee, and sometimes smoke shisha  (it’s smoking equipment where smoke goes through the water). It looks like this:

This creates a really pleasant atmosphere: you play chess, communicate with your friends and have fun.

Lasker’s advice – Part 2

Check 1 Part here . Lasker Advice

First let’s recollect the task I gave you:

White’s turn.

It was the calculation task mainly. You can download the solution here:
LINK
You need to decompress the file and then use any chess program to open the game.

The necessary factor of your progress – 3

Last time I gave you a little task. Were you able to find the right move there?

White played 2.Ra1!! It is unbelievable, but it is really the best move!

Here is this game in *.pgn and in text format with commentaries:

GAME -PGN FILE

You can use any chess program to open such *.pgn file. If you have no chess programs at all, you may use a special Pgn reader program (it calls “Compochess”. You can download it for free here:

PGN VIEWER

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Please, don’t worry if you haven’t found this move. I gave this position to many GMs and no one found the right decision.

Actually, it illustrates one of my favourite topics. I mean the topic of “extra skills”. Nowadays there are a lot of players on intermediate level. They know all the chess basics and don’t make simple mistakes. That’s why today it is not enough just “to develop pieces, to occupy weak squares, to compose a plan” and realize other well-known motifs.

You need to be able to do something, what your opponents can’t do. You need to know something, what your opponents don’t know.

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Please, think about it. Take a piece of paper and write down your “extra skills” (number 1 is …, number 2 is … and so on). The size of your list will show you clearly your chances for a win against strong opponents.

If you want to get the most effective extra-skills and be able to beat stronger opponents, I recommend you the course “How to Beat Titled Players”:

How To Beat Title Player

When you start applying its recommendations, you will play a lot of beautiful games, will enjoy your creativity and of course will start beating strong players!

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The Grandmaster's Openings Laboratory
How to Beat Titled Players
Your Winning Plan
An Endgame Expert
Self-taught Grandmaster
The Grandmaster's Positional Understanding
Calculate Till Mate 

What is Your Plan? (Part-3)

In a few previous lessons we’ve been talking about a PLAN for your chess progress.

Having such a plan ensures your step-by-step advancement. Random study, on the other hand, is rather a numbers game, where you can only hope for luck.

Before we move forward, you may like to recollect the previous parts of this lesson quickly:

PART-1; PART-2

Now we come to the most intriguing moment. You are about to create a PLAN that will bring you a serious chess progress in 2013.

The necessary factor of your progress – 2

OBJECTIVITY (part 2).

Let me give you some examples of personal bias in chess. Please, read carefully; just to ensure that these statements don’t describes you 

1) Chess players often try to find an excuse of their loss. It usually goes something like this:
- “Today I didn’t feel well.”
- “I had a winning position, but lost my concentration and played carelessly.”
- “I slept badly/not enough”
- “I’ve had some personal problems.”
- “I was tired because of a trip/something else”

This list can go on… and these factors can have an influence on a chess player. Let me tell you something though.

The necessary factor of your chess progress

In this issue I would like to discuss an important aspect of chess, which can determine one’s success or failure in a game. I believe strongly that this will have a great impact on your chess development.

I am referring to OBJECTIVITY. Maybe you think to yourself, “Come on, what is so great about playing objectivity?”

Let me explain. Chess players often wonder “why can’t I make any progress?” Let’s think about this question. It has great practical value.

How to beat a STRONGER opponent?

In the previous lesson, we analyzed the correct attitude and mental approach when facing WEAKER opponents. Now let’s talk about the flip side of the coin: the right mental approach when facing a STRONGER opponent.

Just like in the previous scenario, there are some typical mistakes (which most players make), and I have some important practical recommendations and antidotes for these mistakes. Without further ado, let’s go!

Top Grandmasters VS Our Students

Most chess learners enjoy watching/reading the games’ analyses made by top Grandmasters. This is exciting indeed!

At the same time, however, these comments are often not very clear to the viewer/reader.

Blitz

Recently I have received a lot of questions about blitz games. Here I will answer them all.

–> Is it useful or harmful to play blitz?

When you play a blitz game, you have no time to think. Therefore you use the things you ALREADY know. Thus you do NOT learn any new skills.

Lasker’s advice

Recently I looked over my chess books and found an interesting article of Emanuel Lasker. It calls “Final Reflections on Education in Chess”. I’ve decided to share it with you, because it contains some useful ideas about chess training.

The article was written almost a century ago, but it’s still 100% actual.

The most powerful ideas in chess (part-2)

In the previous issue we’ve been talking about “the most powerful ideas in chess”.

I’ve told you why many players don’t have chess progress despite their persistent trainings. It happens because they try to learn many abstruse ideas and can’t apply them practically afterwards. That’s why a reading of numerous books often doesn’t help.

Last time I’ve asked you to perform one task (to play against a computer and to use the defensive ideas I gave you). Those who tried to perform this task found that it is almost impossible to do it practically.

What is Your Plan (PART-2)

In the previous lesson we were talking about a PLAN for your chess progress. Random advancement leads nowhere. A clear plan, on the other hand, can bring you to your goal quickly and efficiently.

So, how to plan your chess progress? Being chess players, planning should be something very familiar to us.

How do you begin thinking about your plan while playing a chess game? You begin by evaluating the current position first.

You can’t think instantly about future plans because your plans need to based on something concrete.

The most powerful ideas in chess

I am glad to present you the new lesson. This issue’s topic is: “The most powerful ideas in chess”. Here we will talk about “what are the most powerful ideas in chess?” and “what works best in chess?”.

However, first I’d like to discuss another question. What does a man do in a critical situation?He/she makes the SIMPLEST and the most AUTOMATIZED action. If someone has no automatized actions for such situations – he usually freezes with fear and does nothing at all (or becomes panic).

Why do I ask you about critical situations?

The Value Of Chess (Part-2)

Before reading this lesson you may like to review or read the first part. Here it is: LINK

In the first part of this lesson we were talking about a positive influence of chess on you:

 Chess trains your mental skills.
 Chess gives you deep understanding of strategical principles.

If that sounds logical, then why is it that MOST chess players can’t seem to apply their trained mental skills in reality? Read on!

The Value Of Chess

First off, a word of warning: this lesson is NOT for everybody! Instead of giving you answers, I’ll keep asking you questions. This isn’t some passive reading stuff. You’ll need to keep THINKING all the time…Sounds frightening? 
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Happy Holidays!

I wish you a wonderful Holiday Season! May it bring you lots of smiles, presents and positive emotions!  And of course I’d like to wish you many pleasant victories: both in your chess battles and any other challenges you may have!

Also I’d like to thank everybody for participating in a recent survey! We received a lot of feedback and now are analyzing everything carefully. During the next 2013 year we’ll be working on answering your questions and realizing your proposals.

What are YOUR chess plans for the upcoming year? New Year is a very suitable time to sum up your past results, and arrange future plans.

If you develop a good training plan for 2013, it will favor your steady progress.

In order to simplify this task for you, I combined the courses into PACKAGES suitable for different level students. Choose your package, and it will become your training guide during the next 6-12 months. Make 2013 the best chess year you ever had!

Good news: during this holiday season, till December the 31st you can get any package on a special discounted price.

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The Grandmaster's Secret
The Grandmaster's Openings Laboratory
How to Beat Titled Players
Your Winning Plan
An Endgame Expert
Self-taught Grandmaster
The Grandmaster's Positional Understanding
Calculate Till Mate 

How to be a LEADER

Before we begin the lesson, let me remind you about the survey. It will expire on Tuesday the 18^thand you won’t be able to send me your questions anymore. If you haven’t taken part in the survey yet – please, do it NOW: LINK

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I have collected some interesting positions from the recent TOP tournaments. At the end of this lesson we’ll conclude with some important practical rules (how to take on the leadership). But first, let’s test your current skills.