Hello, I want to ask you for advise. My personality is not identified as a man with observant abilities. Unfortunately this is obvious with my style of playing chess. I have lost important games because I did no see a simple combination in one move. Usually I am good to find the right strategic plan to win but this is useless when I cannot see the simple combination. I believe that I am good when
Has anyone noticed that not a single person mentioned in the endorsement section of delaMaza's book actually had a USCF rating improvement? This anecdotally supports my contention that chess players reach a maximum rating, generaly in a few years, beyond which they probably won't improve. Soltis maintains this and I suspect that most players, regardless of how optimistic they are, recognize it too
My chess rating is 1800. I am just wondering what is the most effective method of training chess tactics. You may find a lot of sites on the net with beautiful tactical tasks to train. I try to use them as much as possible. But it seems to be a pain to browse the web and look for it constantly. I would like to build my own tactical positions database with the help of Fritz8 and use its training mo
Sadly hello. I just have a quetsion witch I`d like to ask about secondly improving at the game. I`m about 18 and have a fair number of time that I could conceivably use to do this. Earlier, I had been doing 60 problems from the Polgar book, 30 mates in 1, and 30 mates in 2, with some of the mates in 3. That is however, I playewd in a tournament about 4 weeks ago, and I haven`t done any since.