Ok I know what my angle will be in the ACIS thingy…
I will focus on tactics and calculation improvement. My outline is as follows.
CT-ART – problems from this software will constitute my puzzle solving.
Tactics learning will come from the following books.
Chess Tactics for the Tournament Player – Lev Alburt (completed)
The King in Jeopardy – Lev Alburt
Just the Facts – Lev Alburt
Manual of Chess Endgames – Sarhan Guliev
Understanding Chess Tactics – Martin Weteschnik
The Art of Attack in Chess – Vladimir Vokovic
Forcing Chess Moves – Charles Hertan
(See seven books, seven circles, coincidence?)
I will also narrow my opening repertoire down to a fine point.
I will annotate my games, database them and actually put the relevant positions in a book.
Most of what I will be working on will be focusing on tactics, and brute force calculation. This seems to me to be the most scientific and easiest method of going forward. I still think tactics are king.
I’ll have 7 weeks off from school starting December 6th so that will give me time to go through The King in Jeopardy, and get the study plan on paper, finish my games database and hit two tourneys. After that it will be a slow tough path forward. I’m thinking two years to complete everything with no school involved, so probably 3 years for me.
I shudder at the thought of you have even more brute force tactical acumen!!
And I am still up for a Sat. Evening game at chess.com!
Its a nice study regime if those are the points you are chesswise weak at.
I’ll keep an eye on you.
Are you following Lev Albert’s course at all?
Other than CTTP, KIJ, and Just the Facts, not really. I was wrestling with the idea, but for positional understanding Silman is just so clear and lucid that I can’t see using another strategy guide.
I guess I should explain that in future posts. I don’t want to give the impression that I think I can always create tactical explosions on the board by sheer force of will.
I am coming at the ACIS in a slightly different way:
I Would Like, If I May, To Take You On a Strange Journey
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Looks good except for that one book by Vladimir Vokovic. You can never trust them Mexicans.
LEP:
I had had not considered that in my initial analysis, perhaps another book would be more appropriate. I have quite some time before I get to this title so perhaps you could help me pick something from a more trustworthy source.
Well it’s not a book, but a magazine called Playboy. I hear it’s famous for its articles.
Playboy can often help with one or two move mating problems as well!
What about Richard Palliser’s The Complete Chess Workout, it has 1200 tactics puzzles!
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