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| From | Message | Posted by crafty
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5/13/2006
11:09:54
Play online chess |  Subject: Minimum no. of otb games to improve?
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Does anyone agree on what would be the minimum no. of games to play a year (otb) in order to improve? Currently I play around 10 games a year which is not commensurate with improving let alone maintaining form. Obviously the optimal number would very large :) but just wondered if there active club players out there who have seen there otb rating improve through playing more games.
| Posted by fmgaijin
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5/13/2006
13:12:08
Play online chess | When Teaching Chess . . .
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. . . I found that players who played 50+ OTB games a year (a tournament a month on average) improved much more rapidly than those who played only a few tournaments a year.
| Posted by fmgaijin
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5/13/2006
13:13:01
Play online chess | P.S. During my OWN periods of improvment . . .
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. . . I averaged 100 or more games a year.
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FIDE Picks Grischuk to Take Carlsen’s Place, If Not Fill His Shoes — Less than a week after Magnus Carlsen of Norway, the No. 2 chess player in the world in the official rankings (and No. 1 in unofficial but more up-to-date calculations), made his surprising announcement that he was withdrawing from the cycle to select a challenger for the world chess championship, the World Chess Federation announced Wednesday that he will be replaced by Alexander Grischuk of Russia, No. 6 in the world. The pairings for the first round of the candidates matches that will determine the challenger are now Veselin Topalov of Bulgaria, No. 5, vs. Gata Kamsky of the United States, No. 19; Vladimir Kramnik of Russia, No. 4, vs. Teimour Radjabov of Azerbaijan, No. 12; Levon Aronian of ...
Posted by coyotefan
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5/13/2006
21:34:47
Play online chess | No number is vaild
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Some can improve more by studying many games, more than spending weekends at an OTB tourney to play only a few games. Others, especially in areas that have weekly OTB tourneys may find that the most helpful. Some may find spending their time and money studying with a OTB Master the best option. Still others are totally belpless, and coud not improve playing 1,000,000 OTB games.
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Chess: Magnus Carlsen repeats success in China — Norwegian chess grandmaster Magnus Carlsen won the third Pearl Spring tournament in Nanjing, China, with an undefeated score of 7-3. The double round robin was the first ever to feature three players with ratings above 2800. A year ago, Carlsen won the second Pearl Spring tournament with a fantastic 8-2 score, probably his career peak. He did not appear quite as invincible this time, yet he clinched the first prize of 80,000 Euros (about $112,000) before the last round. World chess champion Viswanathan Anand finished second with 6-4, a fine performance marred only by a fluky loss to Etienne Bacrot of France. Although Anand enhanced his world's best rating of 2804 by four points, the new ...
Posted by fmgaijin
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5/14/2006
00:39:21
Play online chess | Obviously, my students . . .
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. . . were combining study with active OTB play. My point is that the players who JUST studied and did not play regularly did not improve as much as those who studied AND played regularly.
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Aronian Grabs Early Lead at Tal Memorial — Levon Aronian of Armenia is justifying his lofty new ranking. Aronian, who rose to No. 3 in the world in the rankings released last week, has taken the early lead at the Tal Memorial chess tournament in Moscow by beating two of the toughest players in the field in the first three rounds. In Round 1 on Friday, he beat Vladimir Kramnik of Russia and Sunday, in Round 3, he overcame the stout resistance of Boris Gelfand of Israel. After three rounds, Aronian has 2.5 points (1 point for each win and a half point for each draw). There is a logjam of five chess players tied for second place with 2 points each, including Sergey Karjakin of Russia; Hikaru Nakamura of the United States; Shakhriyar Mamedyarov of ...
Posted by stevetodd
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5/14/2006
01:29:19
Play online chess | I have recently been considering
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the ratio of playing/analysis that I do is all wrong (for improvement). I play far too much, from now on I have decided that I will no longer use databases (of course I will loss more) except for post game analysis, hopefully by spotting my errors I will remember them better, at the moment I am guilty of slavishly following databases in lots of games, this results in 3 things:
1. I don't really appreciate why the move was a good one (yes ridicleous I know, hence my change).
2. I don't really enjoy the game until it gets out of the book and have to make my own decisions.
3. Because of 1 above it isn't helping my otb game (except for learning purely by repetition)
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World Chess Federation Rankings Reflect a Youth Movement — Every two months, the World Chess Federation ranks the top players. In addition to the main list, there is one for the best chess players under age 21. Increasingly, the lists hold many of the same names. On the latest main list, which was released on Monday, two of the top 10 and five of the top 36 are also on the junior list. And 11 of the top 36 have not celebrated their 24th birthday. The reasons that chess players reach the top at a younger age more quickly include advances in computer programs that are used for training and the availability of historic game databases. Plus, the Internet makes it possible to find sparring partners day or night. If chess players have not become grandmasters by the age of ...
Posted by ccmcacollister
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5/14/2006
12:58:09
Play online chess | Yeah ...
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To play much is good. Then dissect the games afterward and prepare an improvement in the play. At least one tournament a month. What is 12 x 4.5 ? That is my answer :)
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Elite Moscow Chess Tournament Off to a Fast Start — Mikhail Tal, the former world chess champion, would probably have appreciated how the tournament named for him began on Friday. Four of the five games were decisive, though none came close to matching the swash buckling style for which he was famous. The Tal Memorial, which is held in Moscow, is one of the top tournaments on the chess calendar and it usually includes a world-class field. Last year, the tournament was one of the strongest of all time as it included Viswanathan Anand of India, the world chess champion, and Magnus Carlsen of Norway who became the youngest chess player in history to become No. 1 when the competition ended. Anand and Carlsen are not competing this ...
Posted by ccmcacollister
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5/14/2006
12:59:30
Play online chess | PS// and ...
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... it's over 50! :))
| Posted by mean_guy183
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5/14/2006
17:21:15
Play online chess | 50!?
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50+!? o.0
I've never played OTB, so I was wondering whether or not playing OTB is that much more helpful playing online.
| Posted by fmgaijin
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5/14/2006
18:04:04
Play online chess | Only if you're trying to improve your OTB play!
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Yo!
| Posted by ctrl-reset
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5/14/2006
22:09:42
Play online chess | OTB vs Online
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I guess the major difference between playing OTB and Online is the immense time pressure that you get when playing OTB. And with people staring at you all the time :)
| Posted by mattdw
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5/15/2006
00:10:14
Play online chess | OTB improvement through CC..
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I've played about 5 OTB games in my whole life, a couple when I first started in August against some friends (which is what got me interested in chess) and I faired quite evenly then I played again about 4 months later after playing regularly here on GK and studying and I had actually improved a great deal OTB despite not having played any games of that type, my main difficulty was visualisation as I was so used to a computer screen.
I think the differences between CC & OTB are exaggerated, or at least at my level - I guess as we get better at both then the specific characteristics of each will begin to take more primacy, but not really for me yet. Though I do tend to play my CC games in more of an OTB way (no database, no analysis board, making the moves reasonably quickly etc..). I wouldn't advise only playing CC to prepare only for a tournament of course, but I think a lot can be said for CC played in similar circumstances to OTB. I made a thread related to this a while back and a few people didn't like the idea that I was trying to approximate OTB through CC - claiming they are like apples and oranges, I think they are much more closely related than that! More like a two different types of apples or something. ;)
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