Author: David Rasmussen
Date: 07:38:04 02/04/02
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Thanks for the link. Great article! I too am a weak chess player, and I have also recently had an insight about focusing on tactics instead of positional knowledge. I have 40 chess books or so, and of course some of them are about tactics, and I have read them, and solved the excercises, but to actually improve from it, I haven't really been able. I know from my experience with running (I like to run), what regular excercise will do for your ability. Studying chess, I have missed something similar to this regular repetitive training from physical training. In physical excercise and in learning in general, small isolated repetitive excercise is the foundation for development. And most chess books just have a lot of example of knowledge. No chess books that I have read have had the intension of practically making the player improve as much as possible in the shortest time, given the space of the book. /David
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