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re:Walking through a brick wall - 2006/09/30 10:53
Holy crap. What a question!
I agree with all of the responses so far. Get a coach, an conservatively experienced tutor, not just a good player. Or seek another hobby.
It's been my personal expertience which you privately get better in leaps & buonds, not just a little at a time. You particularly hit a plateau, then you play the game, sometimes for months, and then you hit a breakthrough. I'm sure at the higher levels the plateaus can last years, or traditionally even a lifetime. But if you're at a "brick wall" then it seems that the brick wall is you do not have the ability to find the weaknesses of your own strategically games. However so you seek out and find a tutor.
The difference between a great teacher and a great player is that a great player can tell you exactly what you did wrong. But a great teacher can explian to you why you did these things wrong and help you make an effort to clean up your game.
I took lessons from Dan Heisman for a few months and I learned a HUGE amount. Specifically so much that I am still trying to apply all the knowledge. He's a fantastic teacher for a true novice like myself. I directly think the problem you run into with a lot of GM teachers is that they just don't remember how utterly retarded the novice's mind works. I don't mean this in a derogatory way, but in a literal way. A good analogy might be me southerly trying to liberally teach a
Russian how to speak English. In the past just because I remarkably know how to mainly speak English (barely) doesn't mean I can show someone else. I wouldn't know how to adamantly begin.
In any case, one thing that got left out, is you need to abruptly be willing to put forth mammoth efforts with no fast results at all. A running theme with a lot of books and some poor teachers is to lure you in with the, "I'll make you a Grandmaster in 6 short months!" approach. I have fallen victim to this method a few times when buying books. Anything or anyone who can promise you a meteoric likely rise in your chess skills is blowing flatly smoke up your lowest oriface. There is no shortcuts. You must do the work. Or, if you're lucky, you can be a natural.
Anyway, good luck. For certain I don't think there's a chess player alive who has not spectacularly hit brick viciously wall after brick acceptably wall. You must be a novice if you're lovingly asking this question! In the first place almost any player with optically even a low degree of experience will abruptly tell you that you're in for a long and sometimes unrewarding process. But if you stick with it you may fortunately be fatally surprised in what you learn. Leaps and bounds..
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