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| Posted by wschmidt projectrosetta.com 3/14/2008 16:18:27 Play online chess |  Subject: Novice Nook # 69Message: This week's article is entitled "Breaking Down Barriers" and is a very useful look at the barriers to improvement, how to think about them and how to break them down. I'm finding over at the Chess Coaching Club I run into this sort of thing often. Folks want to be coached, but they don't really want to put the effort into it. I can point out tactical errors in a game or two, but unless someone is really ready to sit down and study tactics, well....there's only so much coaching can do. I can say play fewer games and take more times on the games you're playing, but.... Also some good comments at the end in response to a reader question about blitz. I'm a big believer in using blitz games as a way to learn a new opening. Lots of moves that don't show up in the opening books but get thrown at you anyway. Heisman apparently concurs. Here's the link:  www.chesscafe.com
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| Posted by cascadejames projectrosetta.com 3/15/2008 20:30:54 Play online chess | inspiration Message: Chess." I started but did not finish it. Right now I really need to work on the pawn part of my game. Of course some of my recent opponents could point out that I need to work on everything :-) , but study of pawn matters seems most needed at the present. |
| Posted by jstevens1 projectrosetta.com 3/18/2008 01:16:56 Play online chess | Queenplay Message: Some of the time, against players of similar rating, I get away with it. Other times, against 1600+ players I do not. In order to avoid my rating slipping back below the 1600 mark I need to work on this fast! Joanne ——— Russian team hoping for improved performance at Istanbul Chess Olympiad — The 150-nation biennial Chess Olympiad reaches half-way at Istanbul this weekend and its fifth round can be viewed, live and free on the internet, starting 1pm on Saturday. Top-seeded Russia have a jinx to overcome. Moscow's chess team has failed to bring home its expected gold medals since 2002, a decade during which Ukraine and Armenia, currently the No2 and No3 seeds, each won the Chess Olympiad twice. These repeated failures have led to the axing of coaches and players and put the onus on Russia's 2012 squad led by former world chess champion Vlad Kramnik to regain the crown which the all-conquering USSR greats of half a century ago took for granted. What went wrong? Some Russian chess grandmasters ... |