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Sunday, November 11, 2007

Playing Chess

When you are playing chess, you develop list in your head of opponent’s moves which you should explore by playing as many moves ahead in your mind as you can and evaluating the potential outcomes. That’s the secret how the chess experts conquering the world of chess battle. Can you?

Unfortunately, starting out with this is very difficult and time consuming. Chess experts do this instinctively and can play very fast naturally. But it is not easy task to do. To be at the chess master level, intensive practice is required. Memorization and mastering of various openings, middle game, and endgame can be crucial. This is how the master did it. How about us?

The easier way to learn and more interesting are to approach professional’s games, grandmaster's games level for sure and try to understand the reasoning behind each move they did. The idea is not to memorize or copy their moves or tactics, like many do, but to appreciate the strategies and the logical reasoning that led to them.

Skill only comes with the great amounts of practice. But it doesn’t mean that to experiment every possible move of your games instead of to learn from the proven winners which is far more efficient.

The reason why I am blogging here, talking about chess definitely not to show you a way to become a chess grandmaster but to share with my reader all about the art of chess. My focus is studying the beautiful art of chess from variety of grandmaster's games level. It’s all about the great set pieces, terrific piece sacrifice, brilliant combination and thinking in advance which all stated might catch my interest. That’s it.

Happy learning and continue enjoy this reading on my journey!

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