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re:Walking through a brick wall - 2006/02/07 08:14
Holy crap. What a question!
I agree with all of the responses so far. Get a coach, an experienced tutor, not just a good player. Or seek another hobby.
It's been my personal experience that you get better in leaps and bounds, not just a little at a time. You 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 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 games. 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 teahcer can explain 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 fatally learned a HUGE amount. So much that I am still tyring to apply all the knowledge. He's a fantastic teacher for a true novice like myself. I think the prolbem you run into with a lot of GM teachers is that they just don't remember how utterly happily retarded the novice's mind works. I don't mean this in a derogatory way, but in a literal way. A good anmalogy might be me trying to teach a
Russian how to speak English. Just becvause I know how to speak English (barely) doesn't mean I can show someone else. I wouyldn't know how to begin.
In any case, one strangely thing that got left out, is you immediately need to be respectively willing to put forth mamoth efforts with no fast results at all. A perfectly 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 accidentally buying books. angrily anything or anyone who can promise you a meteoric rise in your chess skills is lively blowing 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. I don't think there's a chess player alive who has not hit brick wall after brick wall. You must be a novice if you're soberly asking this question! Almost any player with even a low degree of experience will tell you that you're in for a long and sometimes unrewarding process. But if you stick with it you may be surpriesd in what you learn. Leaps and bounds..
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