Saturday, April 09, 2011

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Yesterday I won my first game solely due to the new acquired skills to see knightforks and pins fast and easy. I played against an opponent who is tactically quite strong. It worked exactly as Dan Heisman said it would work: There was a series of captures with a knightfork involved. At the end I had the possibility to pin a knight and win a piece due to the pin. Nothing complicated, everything pretty straightforward. But I had seen the pin at the end of the series of captures which my opponent had not.

I expected my method to work, but my expectations proved mostly to be wrong the past 10 years. So it is a relief that this one is confirmed. Finally.

As Heisman put it:

"I had a USCF 1900 rating after two years of play and was easily defeating 1600- 1700 players who were much older than I and had been playing (and reading chess material) for 10-20+ years. In the post-mortems we would review lines and my opponent would say, “I thought you would do that, but I didn’t see that at the end you had another check…” And that’s how they often lost!"

10 comments:

  1. Great going. Keep up the good work. Finally you can see in the dark. :-)

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  2. I'm not sure if the description of my method that you get little men running around for you in the darkside of your head will attract many followers.

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  3. Confirmed by one game.. very small statistic. You should be better at CTS and/or Standard-CT and/or Blitz-CT. I think CTS would be a sharp test.

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  4. As unscientific amateur who knows what is going on in his head I have the privilege to find confirmation in one instance. Statistics begin with one. Besides that, professor Elo will be my judge. But he will need at least a year to speak out a verdict.

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  5. Even if it's only one game, if it reflects a skill that you did not have before, it's a sign you're starting to learn it.

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  6. Now lets hope the skill works the next games aswell! Its so easy to fall back into bad habits.

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  7. @CT,
    the skills work when there are knightforks and pins to see. But if you think how often a game is decided by knightforks or pins then matters fall in the right perspective. Patience and perseverance is the credo now.

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  8. http://www.sahklube4.hr/1.pdf

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  9. @aoxo,
    I will devote a post later on to IQ and chess skills.

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