If it’s a Tal book, suddenly, you find intriguing opportunities to sacrifice at every turn. Ideally, when you’re about midway through, you start to see its effect on your own games. It’s hard to put down, full of entertaining prose and fascinating games. A good chess book holds an entire world of understanding within its pages. I can trace nearly every peak rating I’ve ever had to time spent studying a specific book. Which book and/or player made an impression on you? I’m more than halfway through Mikhail Tal’s autobiography and Python Strategy by Petrosian is on my wishlist!" Then you are more likely to avoid falling into it and maybe even taking advantage of your opponent's deviation.In the comments for a previous article, a reader, Chris Farmer, asked: "I’m curious about the pre-tourney prep you do and any advice you might have for a player who has been stuck at the 2nd Category level for years despite blood, sweat and tears. That way, too, you are more likely to spot when your opponent makes a move which doesn't "fit in" with the ideas of the opening and which may be some kind of "hope chess" trap. That way you are much less likely to make tactical mistakes playing moves that go against the ideas of your favoured openings. You need to be familiar and comfortable with the kinds of positions which arise from those openings and know how to handle them.
Much more useful is to be familiar with the ideas behind the openings you play. You need to be familiar not just with pages of moves and analysis. The openings I play or which are played most often generally are no use to you if you don't play them. As a second priority you need to improve your knowledge of the openings you personally play. What you really need to do as a priority is look at what tactical motifs you miss in your own games. I think you are wasting your time looking at tactical motifs in standard openings, i.e. Usually the pinned piece is a knight pinned by a bishop against king or queen and usually the player with the pinned piece has the opportunity to break the pin with a bishop move or force the pinning bishop away with a couple of pawn moves. and leaves only pins.Īs it happens pins are very common and feature sooner or later in a lot of openings but they only win material if the player with the pinned piece lets something else go wrong. That rules out forks, deflections, double attacks, etc. They wouldn't be book openings if they did. map "))ĭuring all standard / book openings tactical motifs which win material don't feature.
Here is the Kotlin snippet I used to generate the table: val data = File("lichess_db_puzzle.csv").readText().trim().split('\n')
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