Author: Uri Blass
Date: 08:10:20 02/04/02
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On February 04, 2002 at 10:38:04, David Rasmussen wrote: > >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. It was clear for me a long time ago. I believe that the main exercise that helped me is trying to tell myself my possibilities and the opponent possibilities. I wanted to avoid mistakes that are result of not considering the next move of the opponent or not considering my next move. I believe that learning to avoid most of these mistakes is the main reason that my rating increased from 1600 to 2000. 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. I believe that the exercises in these books are not the correct exercises. correct exercises should be to avoid tactical mistakes and not to find some sacrifice. I believe that a good exercise for beginners may be to find all the moves that lose material. A good exercise for all players may be to avoid tactical mistakes of other players with similiar rating. There is a big database of pgn games so it should not be hard for chess programs to analyze the games of the relevant games of players with the relevant rating in order to give the right exercises. I believe that this kind of exercise may help even GM's. Uri
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