Have you ever been at a loss for chess related activities to get involved in while waiting for your RHP opponents to move? I sure have.
Here is an idea: Start a hand written database of Grandmaster games on index cards that reflect the openings you normally use in compitition. Why hand written? If you write the moves out on cards, you'll normally play through the games to make sure you've not made any mistakes. The act of playing through these games will make you aware of tactical and defensive ideas you've not considered before, also, a small card box is normally easire to access, and more portable than a computer. You can help build your playing strength, and your database in this way. Many players have forgotten that having access to thousands of games in a computer database is of limited value unless we begin to study and learn from these games. This is an idea I read about in the mid 90's from Tim Harding. Author of: Winning at Correspondence Chess. I admit I was not thrilled with the idea when I first read it, but I started doing it 6 months ago (mostly out of boredom) and I found it really is interesting work, and it does not have to be done all at once, now I find my card database is becoming very useful in my newer games.
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Have you ever been at a loss for chess related activities to get involved in while waiting for your RHP opponents to move? I sure have.
Here is an idea: Start a hand written database of Grandmaster games on index cards that reflect the openings you normally use in compitition. Why hand written? If you write the moves out on cards, you'll normally play throu ...[text shortened]... e all at once, now I find my card database is becoming very useful in my newer games.
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