Improving Chess Analysis Skills with Stoyko Exercises
This content was buried in a post for Kotov’s Method for Chess Improvement, and since it is such an important chess improvement tool, I figured I would promote it to its own post. Stoyko Exercises from Dan Heisman’s Exercises page A summary of Stoyko exercise: 1) Find a fairly complicated...Chess Board Visualization Exercise #6
It is very important that you have mastered exercises 1-5 before starting on this exercise. For exercises 1-5 visit the chess exercises page. Without looking at the board, tell all the squares controlled by: - a bishop on b2 - a bishop on b7 - a bishop on a5 - a bishop on h4 - a bishop on d4 - a bishop on...Chess Board Visualization Exercise #5
For exercises 1-4 visit the chess exercises page. It is very important that you have mastered exercises 1-4 before starting on this exercise. Without looking at the board, tell all the squares controlled by: - a bishop on g2 - a bishop on g7 - a bishop on e5 - a bishop on b7 - a bishop on d2 - a bishop on...Chess Board Visualization Exercise #4
Previous Exercises: - Exercise 1 - Exercise 2 - Exercise 3 For exercise 4, using the board look at all of the squares controlled by: - the f1-bishop developed to e2 (place only this bishop on the board) - the f1-bishop developed to d3, c4, b5 - the f8-bishop developed on e7, d6, c5, b4 - all remaining...Kotov's Method for Chess Improvement
Posted by beginchess on Jul 26, 2009 in Chess, Exercises, Improvement, learning, Thinking Process, Training | 0 comments
The Road to Chess Improvement
Ruke Vin Hansen in his amazing article Mind Games: Who is Doing the Playing? comes to the conclusion that the best way to improve chess skill is not through reading chess books or watching DVDs. He argues that reading more books only helps fill your short term memory whereas...