Author: Otello Gnaramori
Date: 03:54:48 07/09/01
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On July 09, 2001 at 06:28:52, martin fierz wrote: > >you are missing something in my opinion: rohde states 'most learning players'... >i have been involved in chess teaching too, and i have been teaching my kids >about plans and positional chess etc, and at the end of the course you have them >play a tournament and they all hang pieces like mad. we changed our curriculum >after that... >i sincerely believe that *by far* the best method for any player below 2000 to >improve is to study tactics, nothing else. at higher levels, the emphasis should >shift again towards more positional understanding, endgame and opening knowledge >etc. >unfortunately rohde is not qualifying his advice - what is a 'learning player'? > >cheers > martin I think that he meant in any case to stress the general importance of tactics, in fact if we read the following answers : <snip> WindomEarle: i have seen improvement in my game from systematic study of tactics, by solving mate problems, as you mentioned, but how can i systematically learn to calculate quiet moves? that's what really gives me trouble. chessADM: (Just a reminder, if you want to ask GM Rohde a question, just type "?". I'll see it and add you to the speakers list.) rohde: Aside from calculation, there is evaluation. Lev Alburt's system is to assign numeric values (like a computer) to a position, like for example, a position might be "60-40" in favor of White rohde: then a good move will keep the position 60-40 rohde: so when he is calculating quiet moves, if at the end of the calculation he cannot reach a 60-40 evaluation, then either he is thinking about the wrong moves, or the position was not 60-40 to start with rohde: so you have to combine calculation with evaluation and compare the evalutation after the possible moves rohde: this is why computers are becoming stronger - the quicker comparison of the evalutations rohde: the most important thing is to examine the various candidate moves so you dont miss the best moves chessADM: And how do you find those? rohde: even with all this, tactics is still much more important than "positional chess" rohde: everything starts with your opponents last move rohde: why did he do it, is he threatening anything rohde: if he is, how do you repond to threat, or do you have any counterthreats that might make send rohde: once you know why he made his last move (even if you have concluded that it was pointless) then you can develop a list of candidate moves rohde: this mechanical process is very helpful, probably one of the most important thinking tools <snip>
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