tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10713928.post6615087142191817016..comments2024-03-28T01:17:43.262+01:00Comments on Temposchlucker: Close observationsTemposchluckerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07977208394417444785noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10713928.post-13894639444864592782009-02-22T08:53:00.000+01:002009-02-22T08:53:00.000+01:00BP,what you already do has a close resemblence wit...BP,<BR/>what you already do has a close resemblence with what I describe here. In practice it will be two exercises, recognizing characteristics by means of narratives and visualization. In a proportion of 80% : 20% or so.<BR/><BR/>I'm an advocate of cheating, in order to isolate what you want to train.<BR/><BR/>The rote part that I will have to unlearn is the unrestrained use of trial and error moves which tend to flood my STM with too many irrelevant possibilities.Temposchluckerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07977208394417444785noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10713928.post-47654018462680271052009-02-22T00:55:00.000+01:002009-02-22T00:55:00.000+01:00Tempo, I cheat. I load a game using CB and play ov...Tempo, <BR/><BR/>I cheat. I load a game using CB and play over the game. At a critical position, I will take a stab at evaluation and make the moves. I realize this is counter to OTB training, but I justify this process as being one of training. Plus I want to record my thought process behind a variation. I will play the entire master level game that way. Then I will look at the annotations from the tournament book and augment the analysis and contrast my feeble evaluations. <BR/><BR/>In going over entire tournament scores, I get a broad variety of games and styles. This goes to my learning process I mentioned before: You don’t know what you don’t know. So getting a broad brush of styles of positional games is good for me. <BR/><BR/>I have serious issues with STM as well and find different methods of getting this information into my LTM through the story telling and biographical history stuff. <BR/>I do take time to evaluate my own OTB games taking careful note my thought process in key parts of the game.<BR/><BR/>What I have found is that I tend to evaluate the master games with a lot more ease than my own. Duh, I use the visual aid of moving the pieces. But my own game analysis is still improving. Likewise, my OTB games are improving in such that my old enemy “Rote” moves are mostly non-existent. I find I can recognize certain positional themes or borrow from some similar yet different positional concepts I studied. Once I put my mind into “ This looks like something Bogoljubow would encounter.” Then I recall some of the strengths he had and attempt to look for making weaknesses like he did. <BR/><BR/>As for visual training, I need to get back to playing the computer blindfold. I used to train like this. I’d set the level really low and shrink the board to unreadable while entering my moves via the keyboard. I play the level until I score 90% before moving up to the next level. Now, whether this is helpful in calculations or not, I’m not sure. I do know, it gave me a lot more confidence looking at a candidate move sequence beyond 5 moves deep and evaluating that final position.BlunderPronehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08316158004635698398noreply@blogger.com