“Your game is only as good as your worst move.” – Dan H. 2001I commonly run across the sad case of a student who wants to show me a game containing a new idea they found after careful study on the 9th move of some variation of the Sicilian, but later lost because they moved too quickly and overlooked the loss of a piece to a simple double attack. In the non-chess world this misplaced priority is called “penny wise and pound foolish.”
When I suggest reviewing the thought process that caused him to lose the piece, he often brushes it off with a statement such as, “Oh, I just moved too fast” or “Yeah, I just overlooked his check.” They are much more interested in my opinion of their new 9th move. I try to politely say “But you don’t get it! The reason you are 1200 and not 1600 has MUCH more to do with the carelessness or bad time management that caused you to lose the piece than it does from your lack of knowledge of the Sicilian.” Want proof? Take a 1600 player
and make him play an opening he never has before in his life – he still plays close to 1600; take a 1200 and let him play his favorite opening and he still usually plays like a 1200.While it is true that most players under 1400 don’t know a great deal about openings, endgames, or positional play, a great majority of their games are (or could have been!) lost not because of some opening trap, bad plan, endgame subtlety, or complex combination, but because of some basic tactical oversight. That is why the repetitious practice of basic tactical motifs, in all their guises, is by far the most important thing you can do when first studying chess. Learning new patterns is necessary for improvement, but not the only
New World Chess Championship cycle
(Press Release)
FIDE Presidential Board has approved the introduction of a new Grand Prix series initiated by Global Chess as part of the new World Championship Cycle. The Grand Prix series will span a period of two years with one tournament every year in America, Asia and Europe.Following initial research carried out with a number of countries and sponsors, there is ahigh degree of interest in the introduction of such a series of tournaments, traditionally referred to as a Grand Prix series, whereby players acquire ranking points and the player with the highest cumulative points is proclaimed GP Winner at the end of a season. In the new cycle, the winner of the Grand Prix would challenge the winner of the World Cup in an eight game match and the eventual winner of this match would then face the World Champion in a twelve game match for the world title. Global Chess will be
responsible for locating sponsors and together with FIDE finding organising cities, who would be interested in any respective parts of the Grand Prix.FIDE and Global Chess will draft detailed regulations for the Grand Prix starting in 2008 for the next Presidential Board in Mexico City. The regulations for the forthcoming World
Cup were approved by the Presidential Board in Tallinn.he chart below details the new cycle and long term intentions of the new World Championship cycle.
When I suggest reviewing the thought process that caused him to lose the piece, he often brushes it off with a statement such as, “Oh, I just moved too fast” or “Yeah, I just overlooked his check.” They are much more interested in my opinion of their new 9th move. I try to politely say “But you don’t get it! The reason you are 1200 and not 1600 has MUCH more to do with the carelessness or bad time management that caused you to lose the piece than it does from your lack of knowledge of the Sicilian.” Want proof? Take a 1600 player
and make him play an opening he never has before in his life – he still plays close to 1600; take a 1200 and let him play his favorite opening and he still usually plays like a 1200.While it is true that most players under 1400 don’t know a great deal about openings, endgames, or positional play, a great majority of their games are (or could have been!) lost not because of some opening trap, bad plan, endgame subtlety, or complex combination, but because of some basic tactical oversight. That is why the repetitious practice of basic tactical motifs, in all their guises, is by far the most important thing you can do when first studying chess. Learning new patterns is necessary for improvement, but not the only
New World Chess Championship cycle
(Press Release)
FIDE Presidential Board has approved the introduction of a new Grand Prix series initiated by Global Chess as part of the new World Championship Cycle. The Grand Prix series will span a period of two years with one tournament every year in America, Asia and Europe.Following initial research carried out with a number of countries and sponsors, there is ahigh degree of interest in the introduction of such a series of tournaments, traditionally referred to as a Grand Prix series, whereby players acquire ranking points and the player with the highest cumulative points is proclaimed GP Winner at the end of a season. In the new cycle, the winner of the Grand Prix would challenge the winner of the World Cup in an eight game match and the eventual winner of this match would then face the World Champion in a twelve game match for the world title. Global Chess will be
responsible for locating sponsors and together with FIDE finding organising cities, who would be interested in any respective parts of the Grand Prix.FIDE and Global Chess will draft detailed regulations for the Grand Prix starting in 2008 for the next Presidential Board in Mexico City. The regulations for the forthcoming World
Cup were approved by the Presidential Board in Tallinn.he chart below details the new cycle and long term intentions of the new World Championship cycle.
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