OMG - What to study first!!

@old-indian said
I am so lazy when it comes to setting up positions on my board eh?

Well, here is some good news. The chess pieces aren't very heavy, but if you're not going to prepare, then don't expect a good tournament result. You reap what you sow.

- eh?

@mchill said
Well, here is some good news. The chess pieces aren't very heavy, but if you're not going to prepare, then don't expect a good tournament result. You reap what you sow.

- eh?

I am not that lazy eh?

I play out whole games on my chess board and learn from the annotations eh?

But...setting up tactical positions and solving them gets old after the forth or fifth one.

I think strategical lessons are better than the usual...white to move and win positions eh?

@old-indian said
I am not that lazy eh?

I play out whole games on my chess board and learn from the annotations eh?

But...setting up tactical positions and solving them gets old after the forth or fifth one.

I think strategical lessons are better than the usual...white to move and win positions eh?

Pretty good plan you have. We all have our own systems.

Setting up tactical positions and solving them does get old. An idea you might try: Work through them simply by reading and solving like you normally do. If you get it right, move on, if wrong, then set up the position on your board and play through it a few times. It's an incentive to study each position intently. Playing through the answer multiple times will help the idea stick. As the Russians say: "Repetition is the Mother of learning"

- though I have no idea who the Father or Aunts and Uncles are! 😏

Good idea eh?
Solve the tactics from the book and if I get it wrong then study it on the board to really learn the position/idea.

I have to admit I never thought of that and it is simple yet brilliant 😉

“Anyone can be complicated...
Simplicity?...that’s hard”

(I stole that line from a series on netflix)

@old-indian said
Good idea eh?
Solve the tactics from the book and if I get it wrong then study it on the board to really learn the position/idea.

I have to admit I never thought of that and it is simple yet brilliant 😉

“Anyone can be complicated...
Simplicity?...that’s hard”

(I stole that line from a series on netflix)

I have to admit I never thought of that and it is simple yet brilliant 😉



Thank You for your kind words, but I'll start thinking of myself and "brilliant" a little when I reach my goal of 1800. 😏

1800 online is my goal for this year which I figure is about 1600 uscf so it isn’t impossible eh?

1800 uscf would be tough at our age but not impossible.

@suzianne said
Fundamentals, always fundamentals.

And by this, I mean

Chess Fundamentals by José Raúl Capablanca

“A primer of chess”
By Capablanca is better 😉

eh?