![]() ![]() ![]() But within each of these categories there are easier and harder books. You might, in general, think of books where each chapter concerns a specific subject to be ‘novice’ books while books with random examples where you don’t know what you’re going to get next (just as in a game) to be ‘expert’ books. Tactics books and, these days, apps, are rightly popular. Learning skills such as playing a new opening or winning a rook ending with an extra pawn, will require personalised feedback, but tactics can be taught through books or apps: you solve a puzzle on a specific theme and find out whether or not you have the correct answer. You will then receive feedback on how well you have done and transfer your new found knowledge and skills from short-term to long-term memory. You learn something specific, hold your teacher’s hand while she demonstrates how to do it, then go away and try it out for yourself. Just as you probably learnt maths at school. There’s also a rather large area in between the two, which would include most competitive players, for whom you’d use a combination of the two approaches.Ī novice, then, learns best through explicit instruction and worked examples. Let’s assume that a novice has a rating below 1000 and an expert has a rating of 2000 or over. It’s from an education blog but there’s some chess there as well! You might find this chart ( source) helpful. I’ve been thinking a lot recently about the difference between instructing novices and experts. “Vladimir Barsky (1969) is an International Master, an experienced chess coach and a well-known journalist and author. Vladimir Barsky teaches you exactly that.” Vladimir Barsky in 2007, Courtesy of Frederic Friedel Finding mate isn’t rocket science, but you need to know what to look for. It’s a brilliantly organized course that has proven to be effective. This is not just another book full of chess puzzles. More often than you would expect, positions that look innocent at first sight, turn out to contain a mating pattern. He has carefully selected the most instructive combinations and lucidly explains the typical techniques to corner your opponent’s king. A wide range of chess players will find it an extremely useful tool to recognize mating patterns and calculate the often narrow path to the kill.Īll the 1,000 examples (850 of them in exercise format) that Barsky presents are from games played in 21st century. It’s based on an ingenious classification of the most frequently occurring mating schemes. In this guide International Master Vladimir Barsky teaches the method created by his mentor Viktor Khenkin (1923-2010). But how are you supposed to spot a checkmate when you are sitting at the board with the clock ticking? Finding that all-decisive combination is immensely satisfying. “Giving mate is the ultimate goal of every chess player. A Modern Guide to Checkmating Patterns : Vladimir Barsky A Modern Guide to Checkmating Patterns, Vladmir Barsky, New in Chess, 2020 ![]()
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