Author: José de Jesús García Ruvalcaba
Date: 04:36:59 12/08/00
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On December 07, 2000 at 20:29:47, Matthew Crane wrote: >I am thirty-one yrs. old and have just started to play chess.I'm trying to >figure out how to improve my game ie:What opening's to know?What exercises to >practice?How to formulate a plan.I've started reading Reifeld's"The complete >chess course"Silman's"How to reasses your chess"and Soltis "The inner game of >chess"What other books are recommended? I would recommend you to get rid of and avoid any book by Reinfeld or by Pandolfini (for some strange reason they are very popular). Silman´s "How to reasses your chess" is quite good, but it will be more useful for you a little later. Opening play is not important for beginners. Your time will be better invested learning basic theoretical endgames. Two excellent ending books for beginners are: "Chess endgame, essential knowledge" by Yuri Awerbach (also spelled Averbakh) "Essential chess endings explained move by move" by Jeremy Silman. Playing against chess computers is an excellent excercise, specially if you can lower their playing strength (if you play them at full strength you can get discouraged very quickly!). The programs can also analyse your games and show you the tactical mistakes. Also, training basic mates (like KR vs K) against computers is a lot better than against humans. José.
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