My Brilliant Brain
This has been out for a while, but I just got a chance to view it and it has a lot of interesting references to expertise and talent pertaining to chess. Highly recommended. ...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 is More a Game of Skill than Knowledge
“If you want to get better at chess you need to place much less emphasis on ‘study’ whereby you increase your knowledge of positions, and place more emphasis on ‘training,’ whereby you try to solve problems, play practice games, or perhaps try to beat a strong computer program...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...