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Karpyan: June 2007
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Monday, June 18, 2007. Away from the MDLM techniques I have been playing a lot of 45 5 and 45 30 games with the good news being that my ICC standard rating has gone over 1900 for the first time. An improvement of around 50-60 points since I started up in April again after a few months' break. 3) It's interesting to note where the players needed to indulge in a lot of calculation (which you can tell from the notes) and where simple blunderchecking and choosing a plan are prevalent. I've also spent some ti...
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Karpyan: April 2007
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Wednesday, April 18, 2007. Quick, Quick, Slow. I am now convinced that the key to improvement is process, rather than knowledge. It is doing things, analysing positions, solving problems, practising blindfold games etc. As Petrosian himself says:. What I am finding helpful in going through GM games, is playing out the moves, but all variations in my head and concentrating on visualing the position after going through it. The discipline of training is very hard though. Maybe if was unemployed.
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Karpyan: February 2007
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Monday, February 19, 2007. Playing through master games. How should you play through master games? There are clearly a number of different schools of thought, but everyone is decidedly clear that it is an important part of the development of any player. Here are some suggestions, firstly from Dan Heisman:. Another interesting comment from Ziatdinov is that you should pay attention to why moves were not. Made rather than why the actual move in the game was made. His view is that assessing candidate mo...
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Karpyan: January 2007
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Monday, January 01, 2007. Happy New Year to everyone. It's been a bad month. But it's a new year. And that's the main thing. But there is hope. In the form of Rashid Ziatdinov. Let me share his wisdom with you:. Strategy should not be a subject of inquiry for the non-master. No strategy! Only amusing, paradoxical tactical tricks should be investigated. Chess is a funny tactical game of two-move combinations and unexpected endgames. Posted by Karpyan @ 8:40 pm. Links to this post. London, United Kingdom.
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Karpyan: November 2006
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Saturday, November 18, 2006. More on thought processes. Its not unusual for me to buy four or more chess books in a week in a fit of retail quasi-therapy. Quasi-therapy because I have only once worked through an entire chess book - Silman's ". The time I spend looking at the dust-gathering collection on my bookshelves induces guilt. 2,000! 18 memorable nights out in London; or 4,125 packets of Russian Marlboro Lights; or 85 nights out at Night Flight (aka. In Moscow http:/ www.nightflight.ru/. I'm gratef...
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Karpyan: May 2010
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Wednesday, May 19, 2010. Well, shit, I haven't posted anything in nearly three years. What should I be doing with my life? Shouldn't I be following the path of career and women (and not necessarily in that order). Anyway, to get the ball rolling, let me quote an article in full from Tom Rowan, a guy who had some amazing advice. Turning Your Chess Books into Grandmaster Strength Coaches. This article appeared in the May 2005 issue of Northwest Chess.]. Here's an exercise you can try to accomplish this.
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Karpyan: October 2006
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Sunday, October 29, 2006. The percentages are only going to go downhill from here. I admit I missed out the "concentric circles" and knight drills stuff at the beginning of the programme, but intend to try to catch up on that as I go through, I'm sure its quite useful, if mind numbingly tedious. Posted by Karpyan @ 6:59 pm. Links to this post. Tuesday, October 24, 2006. Also in 1973, Geller said of Karpov ". Therefore, the starting point is tactical excellence. Bring it on MdLM. Links to this post. I use...
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Karpyan: July 2007
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Tuesday, July 17, 2007. 1967 - 200 points in 700 days. A very good year. England 2-3 Scotland. Also a very good rating. One might say "200 points in 700 days". I don't quite know what has accounted for the increase in my ICC Standard rating but it is not tactical problems, which I have to confess I have stopped doing. The key points for me are:. 1 No blitz games. I have pretty much stopped this. But if I do play blitz, I analyse the opening phase. The reality is that you’ve got to move the pieces around.
