My Chess Blog

" All good advice is already known. All rules of wisdom and self-control were put together long before our era, and since the time of Marcus Aurelius, nothing substantial has been added. Unfortunately, until now, these recipes helped very few people. ..." Dvoretsky quoting Vladimir Levi - a psychologist - in his book " For friends and colleagues ". As a m ark of respect to..... Dvoretsky ....the man who established a unique style of imparting chess knowledge.... .....did I say imparting....perhaps a slip of the fingers.... ....For....a good coach, teacher, trainer, guru or whatever term that you may give to this noble profession....means far beyond just imparting knowledge.... ...skills can be taught, rules can be taught....but the art of knowing...even so the art of attaining mastery, lies far beyond the realms of these trifles. A good coach teaches; a great coach....(or should I replace this term with guru ) inspires! Dvoretsky was an inspirational...

" Let the reader not think that grandmasters are without sin: they get in time trouble, fail to calculate variations to the end,, make blunders and oversights..... " - David Bronstein In Chess....strategy and tactics are inseparable parts of the same coin... Also, every rules that can be stated in Chess, which are laid down under the 'pretext' of strategy & tactics, has an exception...which, the particular configuration on the board dictates... .....and the one who perceives this 'anomaly'.....emerges successfully! And, the 'hero of the script', in all these rules and its exceptions....is the Pawn!  Everything in chess revolves around the movement of this hero: his move forward or staying back; capture or non capture...., his associations with his co-actors and conflict with the opposing factors! Great Philidor was a true visionary! Vassily Ivanchuk - Garry Kasparov, Linares - 1991 A not so usual bind position.  Ivanchuk...