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I've been reading Pandolfini's guide to chess, and it has been of help to me, now I've been thinking of getting Romans Lab: Mastering chess series on VHS, has anyone seen any of these tapes? are thay worh getting. I only have a 1238 rating, and am just starting to get into tactics. So I'm trying to find study material that is not to complacated. The VHS tapes are by Roman Dzhinzhikasvili.

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I have only read Weapons of Chess by Pandolfini. How does the guide compare to it? Is there a lot of overlap?

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I have never read Weapons of chess, so I can't compare the two books, I can tell you that the guide is written in a Teacher Student format. It covers the basics Pattern recognition mid game play ect. It's a good book to take a look at.

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Originally posted by Ervin
I've been reading Pandolfini's guide to chess, and it has been of help to me, now I've been thinking of getting Romans Lab: Mastering chess series on VHS, has anyone seen any of these tapes? are thay worh getting. I only have a 1238 rating, and am just starting to get into tactics. So I'm trying to find study material that is not to complacated. The VHS tapes are by Roman Dzhinzhikasvili.
I tried to watch the the first two of the dvds and can say that the material is pretty far above 1300. I am finding book study useful. In particular The winning chess series. The vids are very dry stuff and could be improved to make them more appealing.

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Originally posted by Ervin
I've been reading Pandolfini's guide to chess, and it has been of help to me, now I've been thinking of getting Romans Lab: Mastering chess series on VHS, has anyone seen any of these tapes? are thay worh getting. I only have a 1238 rating, and am just starting to get into tactics. So I'm trying to find study material that is not to complacated. The VHS tapes are by Roman Dzhinzhikasvili.
I'm a big fan of Roman D but I would not recommend his video to you at this stage. You are better off reading book, or getting the Pro Chess DVD by Gm Yasser Seriwan.

If you need books to read, get the Winning Chess Series books, 7 in all by Gm Yasser Seriwan.

Also checkout my threads. Free online sites.

Check out my Chess Blog for info. on my Chess improvement and Rhp threads:

http://360.yahoo.com/profile-_t4_0pEyab7Fo8_u73e2?inv=vJ0V5D9i&

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I wanted to say thank you for responding, I will get The winning chess Series and see if it helps. and I will also look up your blog, It all sounds good.

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I've read a couple of the Pandolfini books. They're great but there are plenty of typos and diagram errors so keep your wits about you!