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Chess Improvement Plan Without Books? I’ve Got An Idea!

By TheWanderingPen On June 1, 2009 Under Chess

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Bad news – as mentioned in my earlier post, I’ve lost all of my chess books that I’ve held close to my heart. I was clueless how to start a chess improvement plan. I’ve relied on these books for honing my skills – thinking method, tactical eye, strategic thinking, etc.

                                                                              

The good news is that I’ve got it all figured out now!

 

I just remembered that I was once a member of a chess membership site where they offer games annotated by Romanian FIDE Masters, International Masters, and Grandmasters. Fortunately, I can still remember my log-in information.

 

And after keying in my username and password…VIOLA! I now have 83 heavily annotated and analyzed master games, with quizzes in between the moves, at my disposal. The only question to be answered now is how I am going to use them…what chess improvement and training plan will I use that will get the most out of these annotated games?

 

I’m yet to figure out, but discovering these annotated games is definitely a good start!

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2 comments - add yours
Falsehat

June 3, 2009

I have a mnemonic for remembering Silman’s imbalances:

“Material such as rooks, pawns, and minor pieces need space, ranks and files for development and initiative” which identifies all seven imbalances.

His Imbalances are

Superior Minor Pieces
Pawn Strycture
Space
Material
Control of key files or squares
Lead in Development
Initiative
Material

While rooks are not included in his list on page 27 in his How to Reassess Your Chess, you included them so I added ‘rooks.’ Not a bad idea.

I too am a fan of Silman. Silman annouced a 4th edition of HTRYC to be published in 2007. A Google search lists it but the sites are silent on its availability. Any idea when it is expected?

Do you have links to good Silman sites other than his own?

jim_roe@sympatico.ca

TheWanderingPen

June 7, 2009

Nice! I think I’ll keep that mmnenomic in mind…Well, as for HTRYC I don’t have one. I jumped right away to ReAsses Your Chess Workbook.

However, I’m planning to complete my education in Silman’s Way of thinking and get all of his 3 books…

- Amateur’s Mind
- Reasses Your Chess Workbook
- How To Reasses Your Chess

Perhaps I should also grab his endgame course - its my achilles heels! What do you think about combining the 7 Circles Of Tactics by Dela Maza and the thinking scheme of Silman…

Those 2 chess authors are bashing each other. Hehehe. But I think there is great benefit to be derived from both of their training systems.

TheWanderingPen

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