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My School for teaching advanced (chess) tactics.
This idea has been percolating in my brain for several years.
(Page started: December, 2002.)
Welcome
to my school for teaching tactics. This will be a course aimed at players rated ...
say
1600 to 2000+. Probably lower-rated players will not get much from these pages.
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You
should definitely go to my "Training
Page" and read .....................
(and implement!) - everything there.
(I won't bother repeating anything here, other than to say Tip # 1 ... ... ... is a MUST!!)
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I have gotten literally dozens of e-mails, all along the same lines. They ask the following questions: "How do you study tactics, how do you plan to improve?" "What do you think, based on your experience, is the absolute BEST way to study tactics and get better?" "What is the way (method) that you have your own students study?"
This page is my response to those questions. The BASIS of my idea is to study REAL GM games. WHOLE GAMES ... from start to finish. (This is one of the ways I have always studied a large part of the time and is probably one of the main reasons I was able to become a Master.)
This
page is for the SERIOUS
student!!! There WON'T be a lot of diagrams, (eye candy);
Java-Script re-play pages etc.
You MUST be prepared to work hard! To get any real benefit
from this school, you must set up a chess board
and study for hours. You must be willing to go over a game/variation literally DOZENS of times,
until you feel you have mastered it. You must be prepared to go through these
variations over and over and over and over again. If you are not prepared to
work hard, ...................
PLEASE!! ... GO TO ANOTHER PAGE!
January, 2003.
Another
thing you really ought to do is to study these games in GREAT detail ...
(At least 2-3 hours, maybe several times); ... ON YOUR OWN .......
BEFORE
YOU EVER EVEN LOOK AT THE ANNOTATED VERSION!!! Now I have made
this possible and easy. (I have added a page
with the games in ONLY pure
text
score. You can also download these games from TWIC.)
The
course will begin with the King's Indian Defense, a line I am currently
studying.
(I plan on doing 5-10 games before moving on to another line. I can also
assure
you will not find better opening analysis anywhere.)
I advise you to play over the variations 2-3 times. Try to learn the opening, this will give you a framework or reference to base your studies on. Then set up THE KEY POSITION. Try to figure out the correct sequence of moves. I advise studying the key position for a MINIMUM of 30 minutes before even looking at the solution. Then you should play through the solution slowly, and then repeat this process 3-10 times. (Make sure you look at sub-variations as well.)
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Below are the games that have been completed:
Click HERE to go to Game One. (# 1.)
Click HERE to go to Game Six. (# 6.)
Click HERE to go to Game Seven. (# 7.)
Click HERE to go to Game Nine. (# 9.)
Click HERE to go to Game Ten. (# 10.)
Click HERE to go to Game Eleven. (# 11.)
Click HERE to go to Game Twelve. (# 12.)
Click HERE to see a DEEPLY annotated game (Kramnik - Beliavsky; 1995) ... with TONS of tactics!!!
Click HERE ... to see a game played in the 2012 FIDE World Championshsips ... where tactics were a HUGE factor!
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Honorable Mentions
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One of the best KID's ... of the whole of the 20th Century. (See it.)
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Another carefully annotated King's Indian ... I guarantee that a deep and careful study of this game will improve your tactics. (See it.)
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An English Opening ... with enough tactics for anyone! (See it.)
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Another English ... with some VERY wild tactics at the end. (See it.)
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This is not a deeply annotated game, but the tactics are pretty complex. It is also an excellent example of a sacrifice to break open a blocked position, which (according to several authors - in several books on tactics) is a common device in modern chess and something any aspiring young chess player should know. Many good links, a link to a replay page, and a YT video ... so (please) check it out. (See it.)
Combinations!
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Click HERE to see a really nice combination - that is analyzed in some detail.
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GM Joel Benjamin does a superlative job of analyzing some wild tactics.
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Click HERE to see a tremendous combination by GM Y. Averbakh!
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Next?
A brilliant game - dogged pursuit of the initiative.
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Black to play and win, 21... '?'
Don't know the solution? Are you curious? Do you want to see more? Then ... CLICK HERE!!!
Another thing to do if you are seriously interested in improving your tactics, is find my "Annotated Games" Page, and go over all of the games listed there. You could also go to my "Forgotten Players" Page, (See the section on Nez!); and go over a few of those games as well. Please study these carefully.
May 27th, 2005: I have had MANY e-mails over the last few months ... all asking {basically} the same question. ("When are you going to finish your tactical school?") I lost many files - thanks to so many computer crashes. To complete this project, I would virtually have to start from scratch. Needles to say, this would entail a HUGE amount of work!!! (It would also mean annotating games that I have already annotated about 3-5 times before.) In the end, unless you are willing to make a contribution, you have no voice in the matter, at least as far as I am concerned! (No offence intended.)
Late September 2005: I have had many e-mails and questions asking when I was going to update this page. I have not forgotten about this feature ... I was looking at (analyzing) Game Eight just the other day.
Page last updated: Saturday, April 25, 2015 .
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