Author: Andrei Fortuna
Date: 00:17:29 07/11/03
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On July 10, 2003 at 14:15:18, stuart taylor wrote: >You should decide what YOU are lacking, and then find a book or two which seems >might fill that gap. >From the books you mentioned which you have, you can't be lacking too much if >you have studied them thoroughly. >If what you are lacking e.g. is a tangible way of improving, or something more >fun, then get a book or two which accomodates that. >Otherwise, look again at what you have and use those. The same might hapen with >new books, if you don't focus on what you exactly need NOW (and don't have). I'm lacking the capacity to form a plan given a quiet position on board. I'm lacking the capacity to select all the right candidate moves from a given quiet position. Except from hiring a chess trainer (and I have no resources to do so) I'll find my informations from books. > A good example to help with what I mentioned above might be "multiple choice" >as well as that book written on similar lines which give 5 (I think) completely >different mentalities/personalities (with names, something like Risky Bob, >profound Fred, Steady Eddy, careful Carol, devious Dave). > These multiple choice type things make it much more tangible to grasp what's >going on, as well as forcing the author of the book to seriously explain why >certain things are NOT the right ideas. This sounds like the suggestion that I read chess books for kids to find useful bits of knowledge. Thanks but no thanks, I prefer the adult stuff. Even if I don't grasp fully on 1st read. >Every time I go buying books, I have such grand ideas as to how they will help >me, only to be once again entangled in everyday life, after I get home, and >forget about what it meant to me to have those books. I don't have those grand ideas when I buy my books, at the moment I am trying to add some more chess books to the 6 I already have. I don't expect to be enlightened by a book overnight, but I do expect to change my way I look at the chessboard in the long time. I know it takes time and patience. I like the variety of choice, I like to read more books on the subject and only after I've been through them one time to choose which one is best to go through again. Andrei
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