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Feb-20-07
 | | plang: "Secrets of Endgame Strategy I think it is called."
Yes, by Lars Bo Hansen. I have bought it but have not read it yet. It looks excellent. It concentrates on actual recent game endings to use as examples of different principles. |
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| Feb-20-07 | | AdrianP: I also have it and have only lightly read it and agree that it seems excellent. It no substitute for a technical endgame manual (e.g. Dvoretsky or Mueller/Lamprecht) but is a very good complement to one, and all the more useful / enjoyable for that. |
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Feb-20-07
| | plang: Yes, that was what I eas trying to say. I have a number of technical endgame manuals which are great but I am looking for practical real game examples. So many annotations end with "and the rest was a matter of technique". Annotations tend to concentrate on openings and middle game tactics (as well as shorter attacking games that never reach the endgame) |
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| Feb-20-07 | | who: I recommend memorizing the Nalimov 6-man tablebase. I've found that my game has vastly improved as a result of that and my memorization of MCO. |
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Feb-20-07
 | | James Demery: who: Where does one get the Nalimov 6-man tablebase? You must have a tremendous memory!! |
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| Feb-20-07 | | who: I was kidding about the memorization. You can find the tablebase at http://www.k4it.de/index.php?topic=... |
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Feb-20-07
| | James Demery: I remember reading that Fischer played through MCO completely. I went to the site and I managed to put 6 pieces in , but I couldn`t figure out how to get it to solve it. I`m not very good with computers. |
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| Feb-20-07 | | who: Fischer made a joke (which I was playing off of) in which he said that if anyone wants a lesson from him then his first lesson would be read MCO with the footnotes. The second lesson would be do it again. Once you pu the pieces in (and select whose move it is by clicking on the white to move/black to move) it will tell you draw/win in x/lose in x. It will then post the move that wins in the least number of moves if it's the winning side's move, the move that loses in the most number of moves if it's the losing side's move, or a move that holds the draw if the position is drawn. You can click on the move and it will make the move, or you can click on the little hand to the right of the piece to move the piece yourself. If the move you make is legal it will then automatically make it the other person's turn. If not, it will stay your turn with the piece on the new position. |
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Feb-20-07
| | James Demery: Thanks who. I`ll try it. |
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| Feb-21-07 | | independentthinker: I don't suppose any of you guys could advice the best way to get my tactical foresight back? I used to be around 2000 ELO when I was 18, then I stopped playing for 10 years. Now I have started again and am getting my ass kicked by 1400 players - normally due to be missing tactics I would have once seen in my sleep. Obviously practice will help - but anything else you can recommend - a good book or regime? |
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| Feb-21-07 | | who: I know this is a brute force way to do it, and I don't know how well it works for other players, but at one point I started going through Reinfeld 1001 chess puzzles (http://search.barnesandnoble.com/bo...) which is a cheap book and my rating went up about 50-100 points. |
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| Feb-21-07 | | Chigorin: I suggest getting "Chess Tactics For Students" by John Bain and going through the whole thing repeatedly until you are getting each problem right in just a couple of seconds. This is what Dan Heisman recommends and it worked well for me. The problems are very simple, but you will be surprised how much it helps. After that Reinfeld's book is a good next step. |
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| Feb-21-07 | | who: I realized I was unclear before. I meant my FICS rating went up. I don't have any other type. |
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| Feb-22-07 | | independentthinker: Chigorin - when you say it worked well for me, how many ELO points in how many days? Also I have bought a book called "Sharpen Your Tactics" by Lein which is similar to the book you recommended but doesn't tell you what the theme of each puzzle is - I have considered doing my chess tactics weightlifting with this - what do you think? |
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| Feb-22-07 | | MaxxLange: <i>You must have a tremendous memory!!</i> When the database stuff showed that there were forced wins taking >50 moves in some of the Queen v Queen and Pawn endings, the Polgar sisters memorized that analysis. Or so I have heard. |
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| Feb-22-07 | | JustAFish: <independent thinker> I've used a software program called CT-ART 3.0. It has around 1,200 tactics puzzles of a wide range of levels that you can practice with. You can sort the puzzles by theme or difficulty. Plus, it keeps a "rating" for you, which gives you feedback when you are slipping and motivation when you're doing well. An author by the name of De La Mazza, in his "Rapid Ches Improvement" course, suggests this program to whip you into tactical shape. Highly recommended! |
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| Feb-22-07 | | JustAFish: Here's a web page where you can download a demo version of CT-ART 3.0. As far as I can tell, it is a full working version with only about 100 puzzles or so: https://secure.chessassistant.com/c...
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| Feb-22-07 | | independentthinker: That is great - thank you very much for he link!! |
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| Feb-22-07 | | Chigorin: IT- I couldn't say exactly how many points in how many days because I was studying other things as well at the time! I am probably playing at about the 1700 level now and was probably around 1400 before doing this, though some of that gain may be due to other study. I am not playing USCF right now since there aren't really any tournaments with slow time controls in the area (unfortunately), so those estimates are based on FICS ratings. The Bain book is MUCH simpler than the Lein book (at least the later parts of the Lein book) so like the Reinfeld book I think it would be better as a follow up to Bain. You say you were once 2000 and are now missing 1400 level tactics so it is tough to say what level you should be working at. The approach I recommended with the Bain book would be ideal IMHO for someone <1800, while Lein and Reinfeld would be better for someone stronger who is already consistently spotting simple tactics. The important thing I think is not so much what materials you use, but 1.) that you start with problems appropriate to your current level (which for most people means doing problems that feel a bit too simple) and 2.) that you go over the same set of problems many times, so as to really get the patterns in your head. I have never used CT-ART but everything I hear about it makes it sound good. |
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| Mar-26-07 | | Plato: <Dec-18-06 Plato: <gogulko> It's all subjective, but here are my two cents. I would say the five greatest endgame players, in alphabetical order, are: Capablanca
Fischer
Lasker
Rubinstein
Smyslov>
These are the very same players that Silman selected for the top-five list in his book, which was published a month and a half after my post :P I think the main surpise (for some) is the inclusion of Fischer rather than Karpov, but I personally agree with Silman regarding this -- as is obvious from my Dec-18 post. I'm not suggesting that Silman is some great authority on the best endgame players... and I think it's largely a subjective judgment, anyway... but I've always respected Silman as an author and it's nice to know that our top-five lists turned out to be identical. |
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| Mar-26-07 | | JOHNNY YORK: I know this has been said before but dosen't Jeremy look like a serial killer in his picture. Could be a brother of manson. I do enjoy his books though. |
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| Mar-26-07 | | HannibalSchlecter: <JOHNNY YORK> Yeah, it looks like any moment he could break out into saying "Are you talkin' to me? You talkin' to me?" |
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| May-10-07 | | pazzed paun: It is logical and easy way to organize a book chapter around the topic of the five greatest endgame players but this should be the start of a discussion and not the conclusion. Does somebody have some ideas about say the 40 greatest endgame players, statistics about win draw losses, opening varations played, types of endgames they excelled at, how frequently queens were exchanged before move 25,etc. |
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| May-13-07 | | whiskeyrebel: I've worked my up to the expert level in Silman's endgame work. I still think it's a great value. I've never had private lessons, but it seems like this must be rather close to what I'd be studying endgame wise if I had the $$$ for lessons. |
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| May-30-07 | | kellmano: Good quote of the day today. For me, two notable exceptions are Nigel Short and Jonathon Rowson. |
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