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Your profile indicates you are 19 yrs., old and have a 2200 rating... That is incredible. Who taught you to play chess and at which age? In other words, how did you get so damn good? Mr. M |
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My father Masters in the late 40's and 50's At the old Marshall chess club in NYC. But he was very strict!! and had me learn things like rook and pawn endings when i was five years old.I hated it but i learned. It has proved useful these days. Ms.J |
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as I: what is a "skittles" game? |
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just a chess game published. My Father one night played S.Reshevsky and the game went very late. My Dad had the better game and the exchange up. But Sammy put up a tough fight so my Dad agreed to a draw. That a skittles game. When a GM visited the club or an IM he usually played some games with the members of the club.. |
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Brigadecommander... |
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marshall chess club skittles game 1949 but he was a good teacher! My Dad was white. Scaravella-Kirschstein (A14, USA 1949) 1. e4 c6 2. d4 d5 3. ed5 cd5 4. c4 Nf6 5. Nc3 e6 6. Bg5 dc4 7. Bc4 Be7 8. Nf3 a6 9. 0-0 0-0 10. Rc1 Nbd7 11. Qe2 b5 12. Bb3 Bb7 13. Rfd1 Re8 14. Ne5 b4 15. Nf7! Kf7 16. Qe6 Kg6 17. Qf7 Kg5 18. Qg7 Kf5 19. Bc2 Ke6 20. Re1 Kd6 21. Qg3 Kc6 22. Re6, winning. |
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rian. . . and another who averages investing two-and-one-half days per move -- who do you think is more likely to have looked deep into the position to find the better move? chess as a game is a game of action and consequences, and the effective player is one who looks into the consequences of his actions, and plays chess the way Wayne Gretzky played hockey: <<"I skate to where the puck is going to be.">> In chess you play for the future of the position. That's why you look into the consequences of a move, and your opponent's likely response to that move, and your likely response to his or her response -- and so forth. And even that of course does not guarantee victory -- (I lost a tournament game when in choosing which way to move my rook, I looked 7 moves ahead -- and not 8. ) Still you are more likely Not to lose if you Do look ahead, and see where you are going. Having an idea of what you intend to do is a great advantage over an opponent who doesn't. You are also more likely to boost your rating if you allow yourself to have draws -- a 1% drawing percentage suggests you are uncompromising in your chess, Rian -- that you play to win, or to lose, period. Pressing for a win when you cannot support an attack is itself a sure way to a loss. That is why before launching an attack you deploy your minor pieces and coordinate & harmonize their focus on the targets of your future attack. In fact, it is its target which gives an offensive piece its value. And the value of a piece of course fluctuates during a game. Which is why you might find yourself "sacrificing" say a rook for a knight, exchanging to take a piece off the board whose value has grown so much that it cannot be tolerated, and by making the exchange sacrifice, investing your piece's higher value in the future of the position. Because in the long run dynamics beat statics. Some basic thoughts for you. |
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Some food for thought I do plan ahead a long way- I'd say about five to eight moves, depending on my intent, but the permutations become so great after that, that I am ready to abandon a strategy very quickly if the opponent counters too often and I think my intent has become clear and compromised. Just to make it clear, I didn't join Gameknot to play for a high rating. In fact, I never worried about my rating until recently, after another opponent remarked on it. I just play for fun. I honestly admire you guys with high ratings, and I also know that you work hard for it. Three of my cousins were South African chess champions, and I play them from time to time, mostly to see how my own game has improved from our previous encounters, but the reality is that my talents lie elsewhere, and I am man enough to admit that I am not the next grand master. I do my best, obviously, but I am realistic enough to know that I am not in the big league. So, I admire you, I strive to do better, and learn as I go along. I never had any formal chess education; I learned from my grandfather (who also taught my cousins), but even as a child it was soon apparent that my cousins would be good and I would be average... if that. There are other things I do very well, such as playing certain instruments (sax, trumpet, recorder, clarinet, trombone and such), and I am quite good at making fine knives and blades. Also I excel at learning new languages. I learned Zulu in two years, and I just started learning Tshwana a couple of weeks ago- already I can carry a reasonable conversation. I can speak 7 languages at the moment, and I enrolled for Spanish later this year, German early next year, and others soon after that. I want to learn Mandarin and Urdu before I turn 50. Thanks for your advice. I am going to digest it. Hopefully, you will see an improvement soon. |
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