Waste of time. You should memorize digits of pi instead.
@heroku said in #1:
> Do you think this would be a good use of time to study chess with this technique?
Actually, I can't think of a worse use of time.
> Do you think this would be a good use of time to study chess with this technique?
Actually, I can't think of a worse use of time.
I get your idea. You want to be a strong Intuitive player. I suggest you start with the 125 greatest chess games.
www.chessgames.com/perl/chesscollection?cid=1036062
www.chessgames.com/perl/chesscollection?cid=1036062
@ryan121 said in #13:
> I get your idea. You want to be a strong Intuitive player. I suggest you start with the 125 greatest chess games.
> www.chessgames.com/perl/chesscollection?cid=1036062
Finally someone who get's my idea. Thank you. I am actually building a service for this, I will make sure to include your suggestion in. Basically create a study and use the PGN.
Btw, not just the greatest games though, this will work for openings, puzzles and endgame studies too.
> I get your idea. You want to be a strong Intuitive player. I suggest you start with the 125 greatest chess games.
> www.chessgames.com/perl/chesscollection?cid=1036062
Finally someone who get's my idea. Thank you. I am actually building a service for this, I will make sure to include your suggestion in. Basically create a study and use the PGN.
Btw, not just the greatest games though, this will work for openings, puzzles and endgame studies too.
@swimmerBill said in #11:
> Waste of time. You should memorize digits of pi instead.
But more seriously, you could instead play over annotated WC games in the openings you play as white or black and record the positions as puzzles that have moves that are excellent but that you would not see as a candidate in a similar position. That would be a lot less memorization.
> Waste of time. You should memorize digits of pi instead.
But more seriously, you could instead play over annotated WC games in the openings you play as white or black and record the positions as puzzles that have moves that are excellent but that you would not see as a candidate in a similar position. That would be a lot less memorization.
No you need to understand why the move was made if possible. I would find out what the best books are for your rating. Chesstempo can let you pick problems for your approximate rating or easier or harder problems
Go ahead, Rainman. @heroku
In my humble opinion : Study great games to get inspired by them and memorize some like you would learn a piece of poetry because you can feel the vibrant aesthetic of a master piece, but not for improving your chess rating. What I have read so far is : play, analyze your games and do puzzles, not necessarily hard ones even easy ones can help you to later recognize the themes in your games
Go ahead and do it. You don't need approval from the community for memorising something. But I have a suggestion. World champions may have played something like 50-60k tournament games (just a wild estimate based on 4k games per champiopn and (roughly?) 15 world champions (+- for the number of games, +- for the number of world champions, and some correction for games between 2 world champions). Long ago a psychologist called de Groot estimated that a typical GM "knows" about 50-100k positions well. Let us say "knows" means he or she knows immediately what to do in these positions. So extract one interesting position from each of the 50-60k games and study it well. I think you will improve if you do that. In the process you will also memorise many games.
If you get tangible results in game improvement, this might be one way. The risk is to spend a lot of time and then not see tangible results. However, there are people here who are much more qualified than I am, and if I were you I would take their advice. With respect and friendship. Alessandro.
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