The importance of studying

Recently, I played a game where I was losing and managed to sort of catch up. I knew that if I captured my oponents pawn that the game would be a draw because the king cannot and bishop cannot mate. After realizing that I could not capture the queen, I foolishly resigned. I just read a chess book and now I see that I could easily have drawn because there was no one to promote his pawn on a light square w/ a dark bishop. If I didn't read this book, I would never have known. So my suggestion is pleassssssse study.Game 866727

Yep,textbook example 🙂

Originally posted by hahahaaaa
Recently, I played a game where I was losing and managed to sort of catch up. I knew that if I captured my oponents pawn that the game would be a draw because the king cannot and bishop cannot mate. After realizing that I could not capture the queen, I foolishly resigned. I just read a chess book and now I see that I could easily have drawn because ther ...[text shortened]... d this book, I would never have known. So my suggestion is pleassssssse study.Game 866727

As the recipient of the win, I have to say - 'don't study!' :-)

I find that I fall back on ideas I learned from Nimzowitch's My System and to a lesser extent Znosko-Borovsky's The Middle Game in Chess a lot. MCO also taught me a lot.

Originally posted by ivangrice
As the recipient of the win, I have to say - 'don't study!' :-)

Originally posted by AThousandYoung
I find that I fall back on ideas I learned from Nimzowitch's My System and to a lesser extent Znosko-Borovsky's The Middle Game in Chess a lot. MCO also taught me a lot.