Hi Natalia, I am a happy healthy 50 year old player who just took up chess 3 years ago, mostly self taught mixed with the great and fabulous Chess Masters Tutorial systems from Josh Waitzkins and others. I have a very solid grip on why all the first ideas of owning centre square real estate is key; mobilising my four minor pieces and getting castled with having my rooks linked so as to find open or half open files to play upon. I find the pure common sense in this, no questions. But, I do wonder about how best to continue study of the game. Waitzkins had a coach that worked him through 2 years of end game scenarios until he was incredibly confident, then with that knowledge they went on to study the openings and middle after that.
My question to you is this, would it be beneficial for me to study end game first? (It seems so much LESS daunting than all of the opening variations (billions now) or the middle game which would require complications from openings already in play.
I'm not up to speed on the 21st Century stuff, but nice to meet you and if I do have anything, I hope you don't think unkindly. I'm on facebook my name is edwin l. borden my user name edwinredo I redo everything on the computer. + in chess, I don't mind playing another game. many think it is ed-win-redo and think I'm a smarty. I don't mind, I enjoy a hard, well played game. I find the sacrifice as the most exciting part of chess so Tal has been my best book teacher next to Fischers games. as for computers and programs....I can tell when I playing one or not but I find then unhelpful they do a lot of in-between moves. thank you for you time.
Natalia, and don't forget http://www.facebook.com/RedHotPawn and http://twitter.com/redhotpawn, if you could share some love and post a link/like on your social networks, I would be grateful.
RemovedMy question to you is this, would it be beneficial for me to study end game first? (It seems so much LESS daunting than all of the opening variations (billions now) or the middle game which would require complications from openings already in play.