Overcoming Chess Training Plateaus
Posted by beginchess on Nov 17, 2009 in Chess, Improvement, learning, Studying, Training | 1 comment
Plateaus and You
The brain needs time to assimilate and integrate new information as knowledge and to resolve conflicts with previously learned concepts and plateaus equate to slower progress while we assimilate new ideas. Not until we internalize these new ideas as knowledge are we able to move on to the...
Chess Evolution
I played in the U 1500 section of the Miami Open a few weeks ago, and it was not a good outing. I only won one of 5 games against a much lower rated opponent. While devastated, it has only made me work harder on my chess. The week following the Open, I immediately started taking face to face lessons with FM...Anatomy of a Chess Player : From Beginner to Expert
These are my personal and very unprofessional thoughts on the knowledge and skill attributes that amateur chess players have as they climb up the ratings ladder. The idea is to show the estimated chess rating, as well as the time it would take to attaining that level as well as the knowledge and skill...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...