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re:How to Beat Your Dad at Chess pgn ? - 2005/11/07 00:26
examples. Any example in that book that goes more than 4 moves deep usually includes a second picture to help you keep up. Since the themes are grouped to make it easy to follow along, and the entire point is learning to visualize a few moves ahead without moving things around, I`d recommend just studying straight out of the book, without any board or computer. That`s how I read this one.
Actually, I took this one step further and photocopied all the puzzles and put them on 3x5 cards with the solutions on the back. This way, I can get them out of context. This is the second puzzle book I`ve done this with (Bain`s "Chess Tactics for Students" being the first), and this technique seems to be a great way for me to go through these things 5-7 times each.
My problem is that I understand examples as I`m reading them in books, but I don`t retain more than 25-30% of the material well enough on the first reading to be able to play it out during a game. So going through the same material over and over really drives it home and makes me really internalize it, so I can play out these types of scenarios better in my games.
In fact, this technique of just going through a book once or twice in order, then putting the puzzles on index cards to shuffle them and get them out of context, works so well that I`m considering trying it with an endgame book next. "Just the Facts: Winning Endgame Knowledge in One Volume" by Alburt and Krogius seems like it would work really well this way.
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