Day 13 : Friday Night Chess Club
Lost a number of games at the chess club last night. I don't mine losing so much since they were both strong players who have been at it much longer than I. Played
the black side of a Ruy against Bob who I haven't beaten yet. Got through the early opening without tactical mistakes and was pushing a strong attack against his castled king. He ended up trading queens to release the presure.
Later during one move, I did my calculations on my position.Went through a bunch of variations and saw that one move that on the surface looked good ended up losing a piece for me. At the end of my calculation, I forgot this and ended up moving and losing the piece.
I need to do a final sanity check before making all moves.
Going throught the Bain book seems to be helping me quickly identify tactical ideas as well as make better trades. I also am making fewer counting mistakes after reading this: A Counting Primer
http://www.chesscafe.com/text/heisman15.pdf
the black side of a Ruy against Bob who I haven't beaten yet. Got through the early opening without tactical mistakes and was pushing a strong attack against his castled king. He ended up trading queens to release the presure.
Later during one move, I did my calculations on my position.Went through a bunch of variations and saw that one move that on the surface looked good ended up losing a piece for me. At the end of my calculation, I forgot this and ended up moving and losing the piece.
I need to do a final sanity check before making all moves.
Going throught the Bain book seems to be helping me quickly identify tactical ideas as well as make better trades. I also am making fewer counting mistakes after reading this: A Counting Primer
http://www.chesscafe.com/text/heisman15.pdf
posted by takchess @ 3:41 AM
2 Comments:
At 3:19 PM,
Temposchlucker said…
When you come further you will notice that the counting almost disappears. On a certain moment you just know or even see how beneficial a compound exchange is. Without any counting.
At 4:06 PM,
Pawnsensei said…
TS, that's interesting. How do you do your counting? Do you use the Reinfeld point system or the one that Dan Heisman suggests?
PS
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