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 Club Morphy Academy of Chess.
A must study website; Click on one of the different learning courses to begin;www.chesscademy.com.
For inspiration we offer this.Full screen and loud best!!!;youtu.be.
Please ask questions!!! We have the entire Internet and the History of Chess at our fingertips!!!
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I have always thought that masters are born with the ability to play chess, as opposed to
some of us that have spent a lot of time in trying to advance with no such gift. Am I wrong?
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only partly
Some have had a Natural ability to play so well. But others who have achieved similar results have done so with just Hard work,Inspiration,and downright determination!!.
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Thanks bc
I hope this lessons help me to improve
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THE IMPORTANT THING Stealth
Is to ask questions!!!.
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What is an open, closed and semi-open position?
I'm a bit embarrassed to ask the question, but I've never really understood the explanations I've received. Also, does one advance a certain style of play over another, e.g., positional v a more aggressive/dynamic (if that's the right term).
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I have heard about bad bishop good bishop
can you tell me the difference?
does it depend on the position of each bishop?
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stealth and John;
Both questions can be answered with the same Video. Open-game vs Closed game, And a bad Bishop vs a good bishop. Full screen is best;youtu.be. Obviously a 'semi-open game is somewhere in Between. There are many more examples, and you can narrow your inquiry down even more, by using the huge selection of Videos displayed to the right on the link. Now i narrowed down the parameters of Stealth's question further and came up with this;full screen;youtu.be
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John, as you said, it's a open -- or a closed -- position. A position, not a game. Positions change. And players change them. Changing a position from closed to open [for instance] might be what it takes to press your advantage and win the game.
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What is more important
To learn tactics, or opening moves?
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good point shamash
and stealth; i think its best to learn everything all at once.
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Both videos are very clear and understandable for me. Thanks, Commander!
This thread is already paying off dividends!! Great.
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I have read that some people use a database for information to make decisions while
playing a game.
I have looked into database pattern, but I cannot understand how to apply the knowledge
intelligently to cope with any specific problem that is associated with a game in progress.
Is there a method that can make this information readily accessible, without having to
resort to a difficult series of sequences, to facilitate the process?
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look at it
as if it were 50-years ago. A student of chess (lets say Alekhine or Fischer) would compile all the tournament books and periodicals he or she could find.With this vast collection of games they would begin to look for what opening moves gave advantage and which did not. If a tournament was played, and the winner made 'innovations' in a specific opening, the student would make a note, and try out the innovation in one of his games! That's how Openings came to be. All a database is, is a 21st century compilation of moves in games already played. After a while you memorize the opening. And if a new move is found you can find it in a database.Essentially a database is a 21st century 'Book'. In OTB you cannot bring such a book into the tournament hall. But in postal chess (gameknot) you are allowed to compile statistics on Opening moves. Before Alekhine played Capablanca in the WCM, Alekhine studied all the games he could find on Capablanca. He studied them and sought weaknesses in Capablanca's play.When he found them he committed this knowledge to memory. In essence he used a database!! I don't use one unless i am playing an opening i am not familiar with.Even then i just don't copy the moves. I study the line using the illustrative games that come in the database. Just making database moves without understanding why the move is good or bad gets, a player no-where.
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That is exactly where the problem is, if a player is able to discern where the bad moves are,
and can memorize all the bad moves, then that makes her/him and excellent player.
Sometimes I have trouble deciding which move I should make next, and usually there are
more than one or two moves that determine the outcome of the game, and it becomes
difficult to assess the positional advantages, since there are so many different patterns
that form through-out a game.
Although I realize that it is not possible to ascertain where my deficiencies are, without
actually being present, given my low rating of around fourteen hundred, what would
you recommend for me to start with?
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i would recomend
that you buy the book; 'My best games of Chess' by Alexander Alekhine;dev.jeremysilman.com.
Studying this book has done more for my play then any other source. It is in his annotations that hold the key. You can get this book used and is just as good. Read it 4-times,study the games carefully, and your rating will reach 2000 in one year. A cheaper version can be had at dover publications here;
store.doverpublications.com
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Thanks bc
I will look for the book before I order it, we have a good used book store here in SA and
and if nothing else, I will send for it.
We know there are three phases in a game, opening, middle, and end.
According to a book I read, the endgame is more important, I would like to know your
personal opinion, (which I value) if this is true, or if not, how did you first approach
the game in your endeavor to attain your status?
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Good game to study.
youtu.be
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An even better game to study.
In fact it's a Must!!! full screen;youtu.be
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Albert Einstein vs Robert Oppenheimer
very pretty game;youtu.be.
full screen best.
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stealth
i did not learn how to play chess because i wanted to.My Father 'made' me learn.He forced me!! I thought he was very cruel. I wanted to go play with my friends in the streets of Brooklyn. But he had other plans....I hated chess then, but now i love it. But to answer your question i think the endgame is the most important of the three.
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In my library, I have Alekhine's best games of chess, 1938-1945
would that not be better than the early versions 1908-1937?
Or is there more instruction with easier to understand examples on the latter?
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stealth
if they are Alekhine's annotations then the book is fine. (If not it's not that good.) A years study at least. But you would miss the Match with Capablanca,and the two great Tournaments he won at San Remo and Bled. In that period he completely dominated the chess world. But you have plenty to study in the 1938-1945 period. So you are good to go. Study each Game as if it were a 'Rosetta stone'. Because it is..........
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On the soundness of the pointing rule
I have a question related to the so-called pointing rule which states that if the center pawns are locked against each other ,then one has to break and attack on the side where one has advanced pawns. So for example, in the diagram below White has better chances to attack on the Kingside while Black has chances to attack on the Queenside.
In a recent game of mine, I had such a locked center arising from the King's Indian defense as in the diagram below. This diagram was arrived at after Black played 13..a5.
According to the pointing rule White has to attack on the Queenside where the White king is supposed to be castled in safety. Here I (White) thought that the pointing rule does not make any sense as my King would be very vulnerable to attack. I thought that it makes more sense here for White to attack in the Kingside but I could not find an easy way to break there. Essentially we played few more moves and draw was agreed on after reaching the following diagram. Neither side found a safe and playable plan here.
My question how sound the pointing rule here for both Black and White? And what would be alternative plans here.
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isomorphism
i have never heard of the 'pointing' rule. I googled it, but found nothing.Could you post a reference link to this rule?? As to the position above White has a winning advantage!!.From what you have illustrated in your first diagram i think you mean 'the flow of the game based on the central pawn configuration. If that is so, it is true in many positions. Here is an example
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this position comes from the stonewall Opening by White. Because of the central pawn configuration Whites games flows toward Blacks King while Blacks flows toward Whites Queen-side. The center is Locked for the moment. BC
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Thank you for sharing your thoughts, brigadecommander . I think US National Master Dan Heisman coined the term or perhaps he quoted it from some other improvement books. But I think the essence of the rule is that one directs the attack to the side where one has space advantage provided that the center pawns are locked.
In the example you quoted, it seems that the center is not locked yet. If I understand correctly locked implies something similar to the first diagram I posted in my previous post. That is to say the pawns in the center cannot move forward at all.
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Rephrasing my question
Just to avoid any confusion by a rule which does not seem popular, let me rephrase my question. In the diagram below, was it better for White to lock the Queenside by playing 14.c6 hoping that in the future it will be possible to play g3 and launch an attack in the Kingside? Or was it better for White to maintain the tension the between the White c-pawn and Black d-pawn hoping that in the future it will possible to attack in the Queenside where White has a great space advantage?
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bc
What is rosetta stone?
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a transcriber
or encyclopedia. It answers all your needs. In this case i used the term to describe Alekhines book as a 'encyclopedia' of Chess. In History it was a 'Translator'.;en.wikipedia.org
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Important quotes
full scree please'youtu.be
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