The beginning
Tomorrow I'll start Michael de la Maza's chess program "400 points in 400 days". His method is based on doing the same set of tactical problems over and over again(well, in fact 7 times!) in order to improve caculation ability and pattern recognition.
Before start solving the problems I'll do some visual exercises, as sugested by MDLM. My ideia is to occupy my time the next 14 days by doing Concentric Circles and Knight Sight exercises.
posted by knightwiz @ 00:07
10 comments
10 Comments:
Knightwiz,
Welcome to the chess blogosphere and good luck with the MDLM program. In case you are not already aware there is a group of chess bloggers also following the program -- the Knights Errant. You can connect with them through links on my sidebar. If you are interested in joining the group, just let me know.
I now see from your sidebar that you have links to a couple of Knights so I guess you are familiar with the group. Interested in being a new member?
Hi dg, I talked to Pawn Sensei yesterday and I'm really interested in joining the group, it would be nice to share experiences with other people already taking the same "course".
Thanks for the incentive with the MDLM program, guess I'll need, as it seems to be a long, long road..
I posted your formal introduction to the group here.
Hello Knightwiz,
A warm welcome to the club!
Hey Knightwiz,
Glad to see you got started. Did you contact Don yet?
PS
Temposchlucker: Thanks =)
Pawnsensei: Not yet, but I'll take a look at his blog later(in fact, I'm planning a "tour" through all knights blogs) and mail him.
Welcome aboard!
Michael De La Maza began playing chess competitively in July 1999, and by July 2001 had improved such that his chess rating had risen from 1164, beginner level, to 2041, expert level. In his last tournament he won the Under 2000 section of the World Open and has not played a rated game since. After the tournament, he wrote a two part article entitled 400 points in 400 days for the Chess Cafe web site, sportsbook, which became the basis for the book Rapid Chess Improvement (ISBN 1-85744-269-5). The article and book are about his methods of improvement, which involves working through a large set of chess puzzles multiple times until they can be solved very quickly. This book and its lessons have generated much interest among improving chess players. An interwoven group of blogs that uses his method have dubbed themselves "the Knights Errant". http://www.enterbet.com
Chess is 99% tactics that is starting to be boring. I know that my biggest chess improvement was help of tactics, but then I had never heard about de la Maza chess improvement. I improve 600 points in my first year of tournament play, but I was 17.costa rica fishing
I saw it was so equal, he couldn't build anything expect of looking for win of material. Open files, open centre, open everything. We our humans, we shouldn't play like computers. Chess isn't only tactics there are openings, endgames, strategy. Building combination only from nothing is sick!!http://www.fishingcostaricaexperts.com
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