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Its a fact of chess life that if you want to win, you have to put a bit of study in. Every chess player, from near-beginner to experienced tournament player, needs to learn the openings and keep on top of current theory. But studying doesnt have to be dull. This indispensable book contains foolproof ways to help the information go in ... and stay in. Acclaimed chess author Andrew Soltis reveals the key techniques: - Why you cant study chess the same way you study school subjects - How to acquire the most important knowledge: intuition - The role of memorizing (its not a bad thing, despite wh.;Cover; Title Page; Contents; Foreword; Chapter One: Chess isnt school; Chapter Two: Cultivating your chess sense; Chapter Three: The biggest study myth; Chapter Four: The right way to study an opening; Chapter Five: Two-and-a-half move chess; Chapter Six: Overcoming endgame phobia; Chapter Seven: Learning to live with TMI; Chapter Eight: How to learn more from a master game; Solutions; Copyright.

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First published in the United Kingdom in 2010 by

Batsford
Old West London Magistrates Court
10 Southcombe Street
London
W14 0RA

An imprint of Anova Books Company Ltd

Copyright Batsford 2010

Text copyright Andrew Soltis 2010

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Foreword

Instructional chess books promise a lot. Most promise to make you a better player. Some promise to make you a master if you study the proper techniques.

But very few books say anything about the technique of studying. This leaves the poor student floundering about as he tries to cope with the masses of chess literature and software that confront him. He is deluged with Too Much Information.

The student begins to think that the reason he has difficulty improving is that he doesnt have natural talent or the right computer or books. Or he believes that he cant get much better because he isnt willing to study five, seven or ten hours a day.

But these are not the problems. Every student can improve and improve significantly. What he needs to learn is how to learn.

He needs to find the right methods that will enable him to study more efficiently and productively. These are not sophisticated methods and they do not require you to devote your life to chess. A student needs to make better use of the tools he already has, such as computers and books. He needs to set the right goals, such as how far ahead in a position he should try to visualize. He needs to know how to budget available study time appropriately. Most of all, he needs to make studying chess enjoyable.

Chapter One: Chess isnt school

The reason studying chess is so hard for so many is simple: We make it hard.

We try to study chess the way we were told to study school subjects. We make chess into tedious, mind-numbing homework.

I know. I wasted hundreds of hours studying the wrong way.

I took studying very seriously when I was young. To learn the openings I got a copy of the Bible, as Modern Chess Openings was called. I sat down with a board and pieces and tried to go through it page by page, column by unfathomable column.

On the first page I found a variation of the Four Knights Game that began 1 e4 e5 2 Picture 7f3 Picture 8c6 3 Picture 9c3 Picture 10f6 4 Picture 11b5 Picture 12b4 5 0-0 0-0 6 d3 Picture 13xc3 7 bxc3 d6 8 Picture 14g5.

There was only one comment up to there and it said Black could have equalized with 6 Picture 15d4. I was already confused.

Why should White play this opening if he has no chance for advantage after six moves, I wondered? And why should Black play anything other than 6 Picture 16d4 if it equalizes?

Not knowing what to make of that, I played through the rest of the page, four columns of recommended play for White and Black. I made notes on sheets of paper, just like in school.

But I had a lot of questions and no answers. It got worse as one of the columns continued 8 h6 9 Picture 17h4 e7 10 d2 d8 11 d4 g4 I - photo 18e7 10 d2 d8 11 d4 g4 I tried to make sense of this as I would an English grammar - photo 19d2 d8 11 d4 g4 I tried to make sense of this as I would an English grammar - photo 20d8 11 d4 g4 I tried to make sense of this as I would an English grammar rule or a - photo 21g4.

I tried to make sense of this as I would an English grammar rule or a math - photo 22

I tried to make sense of this as I would an English grammar rule or a math equation. But there were no notes to any of these moves. My list of questions grew longer.

Why does Black retreat his knight to d8 when it wasnt attacked? And what if White plays differently? If I were Black and my opponent played a common sense move like 10 Picture 23b1 or 10 Picture 24e1 instead of the books 10 Picture 25d2 what would I do?

I became more confused as I played through the rest of the column, which continued with increasingly strange moves, such as 12 d5 and then 12 Picture 26xf3 13 gxf3 Picture 27xe4.

The column ended with a string of moves that were a mystery to me, 14 Picture 28xh6 gxh6 15 Picture 29xe7 Picture 30xc3 16 Picture 31xf8 Picture 32xf8 17 Picture 33c4 b5 18 b3 b7 This is where the first comment in the column appeared The note said - photo 34

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