tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2597221176110651316.post4048184213632687928..comments2024-02-22T10:25:35.660-08:00Comments on Secrets of Grandpatzer Chess: The Weakest LinkGrandpatzerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08858795059694934352noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2597221176110651316.post-88280150551103454822009-01-08T18:27:00.000-08:002009-01-08T18:27:00.000-08:00Greetings,You could slightly alter Heisman's sugge...Greetings,<BR/><BR/>You could slightly alter Heisman's suggested method:<BR/><BR/>1) List your candidate moves;<BR/>2) Pretend it's your opponent's move and find his "killer" move;<BR/>3) If any of your candidate moves fail to this "killer", don't analyse it.<BR/><BR/>More to the point, if none of your candidates work, then you're not choosing candidate moves properly.<BR/><BR/>So, one might as well change the above order to the following:<BR/><BR/>1) Pretend it's your opponent's move and find his "killer" move(s);<BR/>2) Identify candidate move(s) against which your opponent's "killer(s)" fail.<BR/><BR/>This way, one of two things will be accomplished:<BR/><BR/>1) You're more likely to find defensive resources in a position where you're under pressure;<BR/>2) As well as 1) above, you're more likely to find offensive/counter-offensive resources.<BR/><BR/>After all, there's little point in spending time identifying a list of candidate moves for yourself, a la Silman, if you then discover - whilst analysing the first one on your list - that your opponent has a "killer" move; all you've done is waste valuable thinking time.<BR/><BR/>Kindest regards,<BR/><BR/>JamesDragan Glashttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02387667885436977915noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2597221176110651316.post-47078062821369132492007-05-28T03:59:00.000-07:002007-05-28T03:59:00.000-07:00Great post. I've recommended Heisman to others, bu...Great post. I've recommended Heisman to others, but I've never gone through the archive of his articles myself methodically from the start. It's about time I did!Ryanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13517158230340317999noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2597221176110651316.post-19307130257259371162007-05-22T11:58:00.000-07:002007-05-22T11:58:00.000-07:00i had to dig deep into my memory bank for the prec...i had to dig deep into my memory bank for the precise name--haunted all day today with the gnawing sense that i knew the origin of THIS idea but didn't have it on the tip of my tongue then had to recall it--and knew it as<BR/>Collins, just didn't know the first name.<BR/><BR/>perhaps most imporantly of all: this idea, that the erudition of a complete chess player necessitates their being familiar with some 2,000 chess games originates with Bobby Fischer's chess teacher John Collins (who Fischers mother asked to teach HER son!),<BR/><BR/>who recommended a noviate start with the early masters, through to capablanca and alekhine, and so on, progressing to bottvinnik, so that the student burns the progress of chess into their brain as an evolving phenomenon, that was<BR/>evolutionary.<BR/><BR/>as you probably already know, this idea recurs again and again in modern chess, whether it be a soviet idea of 300 key chess positions, dvoretskys idea of first 40 key endings rather than 2,000 rook endings, or gm-ram, etc.<BR/><BR/>see my recent post for some elaboration of my own take on review of GM games among other comments, if i may pls suggest.<BR/><BR/>thank you again.transformationhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10834788878068428887noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2597221176110651316.post-14594251952337750292007-05-19T06:12:00.000-07:002007-05-19T06:12:00.000-07:00wahrheit: no, I had to google in order to find the...wahrheit: no, I had to google in order to find the book you were referring to. I was playing off the title of one of Nunn's recent books, although Soltis' "Grandmaster Secrets: Endings" was also floating around in my head.<BR/><BR/>I thought the blog title was appropriate for someone that understood more about chess than their OTB rating may suggest. Thus, "Do As I Say, Not As I Do" :D If I could just follow my advice I'd be a much better player. One goal of the blog is to coerce me into doing this.Grandpatzerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08858795059694934352noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2597221176110651316.post-59955827637705780472007-05-18T17:26:00.000-07:002007-05-18T17:26:00.000-07:00This is an excellent post, and I'm linking to it i...This is an excellent post, and I'm linking to it in my <A HREF="http://rlpchessblog.blogspot.com/2007/05/rd-5-reno-cc-ch-qualifier-bayati.html" REL="nofollow">post today</A> about how I played 30 moves of Real Chess against a guy rated 2113 FIDE, obtained an even endgame, played 1 sloppy move and was lost...that's the way it goes, absolutely, and I thought my readers could profit from your thoughts.<BR/><BR/>By the way, is the name of your blog based on the book by Kenneth Mark Colby?Robert Pearsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01357942424904415208noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2597221176110651316.post-65971198173995829092007-05-17T14:22:00.000-07:002007-05-17T14:22:00.000-07:00It's sure hard to do it every move. I still don't....It's sure hard to do it every move. I still don't. One thing that helps me is to be aware of times that I am tempted to play hope chess:<BR/>1) Tired (especially after a long think on a previous move).<BR/>2) Analyzed the move on my previous move, so I assume my previous analysis was good.<BR/>3) Cocky: the person is not as good as me.<BR/>4) Self-hatred: I perceive I am losing the game, and let it get me all depressed and I get lazy.<BR/>5) Excited: I am ahead.<BR/>6) He has low time: I want to move fast to force him to use up his clock and start playing sloppy. Thing is, I start playing sloppy.<BR/>7) Opening rhythm self-deception. The first non-book opening move I often feel like I am still 'in book', in a rhythm, and so move without doing the required analysis.<BR/>8) Time trouble: this may be the only time it is justified. If I am in horrible time trouble and simply have to move, there ain't no time to analyze.<BR/><BR/>Those are the main ones I can think of. Any others people have?<BR/><BR/>At any rate, being aware of the above has started to help my play: I remind myself that playing hope chess is always a mistake (unless I have like 1 minute left on my clock).Blue Devil Knighthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12045468316613818510noreply@blogger.com