Day 1, First steps
Today I started the MDLM's program with micro drills. I did both the Concentric Squares, forking Rook, Bishop and Knight, and the Knight sight exercise. I felt the Knight one to be easy, maybe because I already have a good vision on how it moves, but the CS was somewhat trick: that's easy to forget a fork here and there, so I had to do it carefully.
As this training aims improving chess vision, I was facing a dilemma: should I use my real board, or a 2D board on the computer screen? As I'm just playing over the net, I chose the second option.
posted by knightwiz @ 23:06
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Well met, Sir! Glad you found us. Being part of the group makes it easier (and it's hard enough as it is!)
You got an account on ICC yet? Let me know your handle and I'll add you to my notify list.
PS
Or FICS....
First off, welcome. Second, some think using an actual board for the chess vision drills helps cement your thinking by associating the pins and forks with picking up the pieces. I have no idea if that helps or not, but for me it was nice to sit down to an actual chess board for a change.
Pawn Sensei,
I've been playing on Yahoo! for a while, but as I see most people here talk about ICC and FICS, I downloaded WinBoard to test. Played one blitz 2 minutes game, just to make sure I really suck on fast games!
I chose the handle 'knightwizzy' on FICS. I'm still confused with this telnet interface, but if you see me there, say hello =)
It's best to get used to both systems, OTB and screen. It can be really a problem if you have to switch and you are not used to it. It took me a few years to customize to a screen and still I have much more oversight on a physical board. Other Knights encountered the opposite problem.
Hi, welcome to the round table!
When I train I use a chessboard only for the more complicated problems.
But it is more work to set up every time a new situation on the board, so it decrease the number of exersices you can do.
Good luck! Hopefully we'll both be here, alive and kicking, in a few months :-)
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