This a continuation post that maggoteer asked me to do down here.
Ok... already explained that "pattern recognition" is the key to getting
better at chess. If you look at most of my games and do a little hard
work...you will see that alot of those positions have happened
before...and all it takes is just a little bit of work..or deep thought to
bring that position back up...and when I see it I know exactly how to
play it.
Let's look a little deeper...MCO is a book known as "The Chess
Bible"...and MANY players here have it...but just following those lines
does not constitute that you know why in the hell that 5....a6 is so
important in the Najdorf sicillian. To tell you the truth...I am not sure
exactly why some openings are the way they are...to realize that
youwould have to go back and look at every opening book from the
time of Greco and Lucena up till modern day. Most of the time...we
play it because we know it is right...but get 15 moves into an opening
and then you have to develop a "plan".
Reti said "Chess is 99% Tactics"...but Soltis said "Chess is 99%
Calculation" (good book for all "The Inner Game of Chess" by Soltis)
I agree with Soltis...some times I cannot out tactic a player...but I can
look deeper than he can...and try to predict his moves better than he
can himself. Knightmare NJ has done the same to me a few
times...and when you can make a person make the moves you
want...then you are CONTROLLING the game...and therein lies the win.
Okay..enough for now.
But I will answer all questions that anyone wants to chuck my way.
Dave
Captain USA
I agree with you all the way.
I also have a book that was very useful in my begining in
Chess, "From the Opening into the Endgame" from Edmar Mednis,
that shows throu eleven openings the best moves till posicional
schemes with advantage in the endgame.
The Endgame is what leaves, in must cases to defeat, cause you must
know some rules and schemes (so many) that leaves to
draw/defeat/win and must players tend to forget.
Also in my library is a good book that I recomend, that I dont know
the exact title in English cause I have it in Spanish ( Combinaciones
en el Medio Juego ) from Romanovsky -- Combinations in the Middle
Game ---
Hope this help someone.
Sorry for the intrusion, Schliemann
Regards
Thanks! That was very helpful. I'll have to look around for the books
you mention. I've certainly liked the other Mednis books I've seen.
(Hmm, maybe I should read some of the one's I already have...nah,
that's not nearly as fun as looking for more books. :>😉
And don't worry about "intruding" on Schliemann! Heck, the rest of us
like hearing from someone else occasionally - that man justs posts
and posts like its going out of style! (Just teasing you Schliemann, I
know you can take it. And ME ribbing anyone about posting all the
time is.....ironic. :>😉
I know Michael...if anyone can be gracious about being the butt of a
joke it is me.
The book mentioned by fernando is a good one...and I hve it right
beside me.."Combinations in the Middlegame" by GM I.Z.
Bondarevsky...revisions by the wonderful FM Ken Smith...who actually
told me to buy it when I ordered some books from Chess Digest
about 6 years ago...a little bit before his death....he was a very nice
man and a great author....Ken Smith that is.
A good book by Mr. Mednis is "How to Beat Bobby Fischer"...he really
put his heart into that one.
Dave
Captain USA
I'll second the nomination of "The Inner Game of Chess" by Soltis.
That is the first serious chess book I bought (which occurred about a
month or two ago). I'm not quite finished working through it yet, but
it has already really helped my game, especially my ability to see
mating possibilities in positions where I used to just try to grab pawns
or win exchanges.
Are you really sure that it was Reti who said "Chess is 99% Tactics"?
I have seen that quotation at least two times on different web sites
and on these occasions it was Richard Teichmann who was credited for
the quotation. I ask this question because I pay attention to facts and
want facts to be correct. It's possible that Reti said the same thing as
Teichmann did, but I think Teichmann is the origin of this quotation.
Here is one site where Teichmann is mentioned:
http://dspace.dial.pipex.com/chesscorner/quotes/chess_quotes.htm