Tuirgin

I have to admit browsing the selection of chess improvement blogs populating the web can often be intimidating. Chess bloggers from relative beginners to experienced pros have theories and ideas on learning strategies, many of them quite in depth, technical, mathematical and seemingly requiring the selling of one’s soul to the devil out of a pure demand for form. (Hrm. Maybe that’s why so many religious leaders reviled it before the Enlightenment.)

If I got carried away with all these training ideas, I could probably drive myself nutty. But in the midst of all this hot sizzling brain spasmodificationism there’s a voice that rings true to me. C. J. S. Purdy’s constant advice on how to improve is… practice. (continue reading…)