Wild Ups And Downs

As I try to both learn and teach I realize that it's a delicate balence. So you have to be very agile in your desision making to have everything your doing fall into place. This is especially true since life and chess are both primarily about making multiple parts and plans work together seamlessly.

So Now I realize...
1. There is no way to improve my chess significantly in 6 months and write a full book.
2. My other Blogs are suffering as I go through intense Chess Addiction(Not that there's any thing wrong with that!)

So I'm adjusting

As of Now I am going to be Moving all of my Blogs to my main blog.

As an additional note I will be changing the way I blog about chess. IF I just wrote a book by writing a blog it would probably be pretty disappointing for my blog followers to just get a book of the same old stuff that they have already read! So from Now on the Chess Part of my blog will be me pointing out cool things from my games or Games I've Found Online!

1: Proposed Table of Contents

Table of Contents

Introduction ...... i
Chapter 1: The Basics of Chess Study
Chapter 2: The Access Method, the secret to quick progress.
Chapter 3: The Basics of Chess.
Chapter 4: The Chess Crash Course, Openings, Middle, and End game.
4.1: Opening Principles
4.2: The most common 10.
4.3: The Middle Game
4.3.1: Tactics
4.3.2: Position
4.3.3: Check mate!
4.4 Simple End Games
4.4.1 Passing a Pawn
4.4.2 The Opposition
Chapter 5: Access, Your over all knowledge of the game
Chapter 6: The Opening Mini Course Open games
Chapter 7: The Opening Mini Course Closed games
Chapter 8: The End game course one.
Chapter 9: The mid game mini course.
Chapter 10: Tactics mini course.
Chapter 11: Detailed Access. Find your flaws!
Chapter 12: A wholistic chess approach.
Chapter 13: Extra Study Taking the Next Step.
Chapter 14: Conclusion, my chess development.
Chapter 15: Quiz, Review what you learn and Practice!

Chapter One Part One: Preperation

So the thought of taking time to prepare for chess study sounds absolutly tedious to me and I'm guessing it sounds the same to you, but if you want to learn quickly a little bit of set up time can go a long way to making the greatest gains in the least amount of time.

Things you will need:
1. A quiet well lit table or desk.
2. Two chess boards. (second one is optional but a plus).
3. A chess clock.
4. Study Material
a. A complete basic book
b. An in depth end game book
c. an in depth openning guide
d. an in depth midddle game guide
e. Notes (not nessesarily a notebook)
5. The Proper mind set.
6. Computer Chess (Chessmaster, Fritz, Rybka)
7. Some one much better than yourself (ie join your local chess club)
8. A chess.com account (it's free)


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Now you don't have to run out and get everything this minute as a complete basic book is probably all you will need for a good long while. More than one of each kind of book is also a plus becuase while most of these books say the same things you can never tell which authors style will resonate with you.

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Chess.Com

If your studying chess you'll find a whole lot of theory books about any and all portions of the games. But if you want to learn quickly that's just not going to be enough! Because preforming well in chess tournaments is more than just what you theoretically know. It's how you preform, consistently and its all under pressure. Even if the tournaments didn't add a whole new level to the game there is still a hugh benifit to thinking not just about chess itself but also about how you learn it.

That's what this book is going to be about. Not just the positions but how to fully intigrate what you learn into your game.

The Basic premise starts like this...

So you've been playing chess for a while and you mindlessly blow through game after game with your friends or online but you don't seem to be getting any better? What's the deal? Well, chances are your not analizing your own games or not studing effectively. The worst part is if your aren't actively looking for flaws in your game you are mentally reinforcing your mistakes. That's no way to learn.

Besides a lack of self analysis most begginers and intermeddiate players lack some of the basic knowledge of the game.

In this book we will be discussing and constainly refining the access method of improvement. As well as learning basic, intermediate and advanced chess techniques.


Next Post: Study Basics

Crucified By Ignorance - The Jason Williams Story

Hi this is Jason Williams from pokerheavy.com and I'm Trying to make it to this World open thing in style So I am hoping to get better quickly but time after time I keep letting games slip away after just flat giving away pieces. Now alot of these disasters are caused by me experimenting with Sacs and I am learning a lot, But ouch does it hurt when it almost works but you missed something!

So to introduce you to this blog I will be writing primarily two kinds of entries.
1.My Story Pieces - like the one you just read where I will endlessly Bitch and moan about chess or brag like a bastard. Or in short I'll just let you know how it's going in my quest for philly gold!

2.Book peices- These posts will probably be technical, may possibly be sardonic and will probably make it into the final book I will be writing/compiling. They are a little more serious hopefully more fun and definately better than writing it on pen and pad.



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