It's absolutely one of the most instructive books ever written on chess, regardless of subject. Lots of good ideas here, I'd just add Rate Your Endgame by Mednis and Crouch. But this could be a mistake.Īnyway, Rate your endgame is top of my wishlist along with a few other classics: Also I have a hard time realy working with books which do not explicitly challenge me to work. This change because I play very few games and felt I need to work in the little time I have. Some time back I kind of changed my focus from books about chess to books which involve the reader. I have had the Watson book on my wishlist but have not gotten to it yet. Narrow the scope but make sure to master what you do instead of constantly trying to learn new stuff. Is this simply the difference between trying to improve in your fourties and improving at an early age? Should one work all the harder on the stuff that do not stick to memory the first time? Should one stop wasting time trying to improve in areas where you don’t have natural ability/interest? Should one spend less time philosophizing about these things and more on actual chess? I don’t realy know what to make of this observation. Not some of the same mistakes or a lot of the same mistakes but ALL the exact same mistakes! That kind of killed my motivation for a few days. I made the exact same mistakes as I did the first time ½ year ago. But some did not catch me the first time (not my openings, not my style) and one of those I decided to do again. the Lasker games and the Korchnoi IQP positions - simply magic!). Of course some games make more impression than others and those who made most impression on me I have already analyzed many times and more or less memorized (e.g. After going through some 15 games or so I decided to go back and go through one of the first again. Wonderful games, improvement, and competing at once (against one self but still it brings some exitement into training). It’s a nice book and I enjoy the solitare style and Zenons clear explanations. I got chess self-improvement by Zenon about a year ago. I love solitare chess but here is a scary story. What program do you use for the diagrams and how exactly do you drill? Also you could enter key positions from your own games.
It's no proof of anything, but my chess results have improved significantly since I started a "make sure I retain everything important that I learn" regimen (my USCF rating had fallen into the 1700s my perfomance rating for my last 50 games is 1950, including respectable results against 2000+ players), and I no longer feel like I'm rowing against the current. This also has the advantage of cutting down on the number of books I buy, since if I go through them too fast it increases the number of flashcards I have to go through on a day too much.īooks I am currently "memorizing" this way: If it is for education, and I know I will be disappointed if I don't retain the information in it, I enter its problems into a spaced repetition system so that I will continue to remember them in the future. My answer has been, for each chess book I read, to decide if I am reading it for pleasure or for education. I am also in my forties, for what it's worth. This anecdote resonated with me because I have experienced exactly the same thing. Some other books that I think also lead to an immediate increase in playing strength are The Art of Sacrifice in Chess (it's SOO important to understand what material is actually worth!), Pawn Structure Chess, and My System. Still, if the subject in question is "endgame technique" or "how to play the ending"-as opposed to endgame theory-I don't know of a better book.
I probably gained more in strength from this single book than any other single book, but that says as much about my own chess education at the time than it does about the book. It's one of a handful of books that I can trace a large increase in my playing strength directly to. I'm curious to see whether other people think as highly of it as I do. Let us know what you think of it after you get it, and more importantly, after you've had the time to genuinely do some serious training with it. Make that 7 copies now.Eric, you convinced me to buy. Did you mean Rate Your Endgame? There are 8 used copies in right now, starting at $18.03.
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