Comments on: Nurturing a Chess Obsession http://www.tuirgin.com/2009/03/27/nurturing-a-chess-obsession/ My soul in a lobster pot... Mon, 22 Feb 2010 14:37:30 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Falsehat http://www.tuirgin.com/2009/03/27/nurturing-a-chess-obsession/comment-page-1/#comment-341 Falsehat Tue, 30 Jun 2009 21:11:41 +0000 http://www.tuirgin.com/?p=103#comment-341 <p>As Black play the amazing French Defense. 1 e4 e6! stops a attacks on f7! 2 d4 d5! Black is attacking! Black is playing his game. No wonder people do no like playing against it. Ari Ziegler's French Defense CD gives his personal repertoire of how he plays the French. He actually plays his recommendations. Yes, some variations make his game difficult but he tells you so. His is a simple system based on common sense which is easily learned. On 1d4 I always answer e6 hoping for d4, the French.</p> As Black play the amazing French Defense. 1 e4 e6! stops a attacks on f7! 2 d4 d5! Black is attacking! Black is playing his game. No wonder people do no like playing against it. Ari Ziegler’s French Defense CD gives his personal repertoire of how he plays the French. He actually plays his recommendations. Yes, some variations make his game difficult but he tells you so. His is a simple system based on common sense which is easily learned. On 1d4 I always answer e6 hoping for d4, the French.

]]> By: Falsehat http://www.tuirgin.com/2009/03/27/nurturing-a-chess-obsession/comment-page-1/#comment-340 Falsehat Tue, 30 Jun 2009 20:54:33 +0000 http://www.tuirgin.com/?p=103#comment-340 <p>All three are easy reads, each covering slightly different concepts. All boil down to a dozen rules to consider at every move. I do not study the openings yet I rarely get a bad opening position. The rules apply for the entire game. I have memorized them. When I lose -and it is often - it is always because I ignore/forgot a rule or was simply outplayed by a better player. I no longer blunder, the first rule I mastered. I always use all my time, the second rule I mastered. And the improvement goes on. All three books are a necessary read. All are quite cheap on used book sites.</p> All three are easy reads, each covering slightly different concepts. All boil down to a dozen rules to consider at every move. I do not study the openings yet I rarely get a bad opening position. The rules apply for the entire game. I have memorized them. When I lose -and it is often – it is always because I ignore/forgot a rule or was simply outplayed by a better player. I no longer blunder, the first rule I mastered. I always use all my time, the second rule I mastered. And the improvement goes on. All three books are a necessary read. All are quite cheap on used book sites.

]]> By: Tuirgin http://www.tuirgin.com/2009/03/27/nurturing-a-chess-obsession/comment-page-1/#comment-28 Tuirgin Mon, 30 Mar 2009 21:00:48 +0000 http://www.tuirgin.com/?p=103#comment-28 <p>Thanks for the suggestions. I do really like Purdy. His writing is lucid and encouraging to me.</p> <p>At what level would you put the other two books? Are they suitable for a beginner?</p> Thanks for the suggestions. I do really like Purdy. His writing is lucid and encouraging to me.

At what level would you put the other two books? Are they suitable for a beginner?

]]> By: Falsehat http://www.tuirgin.com/2009/03/27/nurturing-a-chess-obsession/comment-page-1/#comment-6 Falsehat Sat, 28 Mar 2009 15:08:18 +0000 http://www.tuirgin.com/?p=103#comment-6 <p>Ignore the openings. What you need is how to make good moves. . . And Purdy is your man. "The Search for Chess Perfection II" is the answer. My two other favourites for teaching how to make good moves is Agaard's Excelling at Chess" and Silman's "How to Reassess Your Chess."</p> Ignore the openings. What you need is how to make good moves. . . And Purdy is your man. “The Search for Chess Perfection II” is the answer. My two other favourites for teaching how to make good moves is Agaard’s Excelling at Chess” and Silman’s “How to Reassess Your Chess.”

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