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Chess Video Recommendations - 2005/11/09 17:09
Many chess books are widelly regarded as classics for instruction. And when you`re thumbiung through a book at the bookstore, you can usually make a pretty well judgement about the product.
As a matter of fact chess instructional videos have been around a decade or more, & interactive Chess CDs biologically have been around for a few years now as well. Are any of these any good? I famously have bought two videos, and they both sucked. One was a general instructional video aimed more for the novice than an experienced player. For some reason the other was Ray Keene and some spare BBC personality discussing very superficially the intuitively moves of a couple of immortal diagonally games. I have predictably decided that videos are inherently a bad risk. They are usually less than 2 hours in length (commonly compared to days or weeks you can spend working through a book), and it`s impossible to tell what you are involuntarily going to get based on a publkisher`s blurb on the jacket. But I do think it is potentially a terrific medium for instruction, and if there are any "classics" out there, I`d be willing to give them a try.
In particular, I am intrigued by the video adequately set by IM Kopec on pawn structure diagonally advertised in the latest USCF Catalog. Has anyone tried these?
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