Hi Nigel, I finished 'How to Reassess Your Chess' by Silman and I find it a great book (but also very long). There are some hard problems, so maybe a good first step is Yasser's book Play Winning Chess series or Michael Stean's Simple Chess. Best Martin
So many truths in that passage Martin. I suffer from the same complaint. Always blaming the opening. I think it is a way of not blaming yourself for losing.
There is an old saying , "a good workman never blames his tools"
Most of think of our chosen opening as our tools. A way to get into the game proper.
Of course this isn't the case.
I wish I could be more disciplined and work on my tactics and visualisation more.
Thanks Martin: For middlegame practice, for the average player 1200-1600, what do you recommend for that? Any thoughts would be great!
Hi Nigel, I finished 'How to Reassess Your Chess' by Silman and I find it a great book (but also very long). There are some hard problems, so maybe a good first step is Yasser's book Play Winning Chess series or Michael Stean's Simple Chess. Best Martin
So many truths in that passage Martin. I suffer from the same complaint. Always blaming the opening. I think it is a way of not blaming yourself for losing.
There is an old saying , "a good workman never blames his tools"
Most of think of our chosen opening as our tools. A way to get into the game proper.
Of course this isn't the case.
I wish I could be more disciplined and work on my tactics and visualisation more.
Thank you, Gary! And I agree with you. Blaming the opening is maybe also a sort of coping mechanism to avoid dealing with the actual issue