As a MARK of respect.....
"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 mark 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 guru....and he leaves behind a great legacy for the future generations....not just to follow...but to try and explore new ways, than merely parroting him....!
Dvoretsky forewarns about the sin that one may commit...albeit unintentionally.....in the foreword of the book "For friends and colleagues"...
"It is one thing to describe a certain principle, and a totally different one to comprehend its meaning, the sphere and limitations of its application. Inexperienced chess players often mindlessly use familiar rules in irrelevant situations, with sad or ridiculous results.
It is not easy to transfer the truths, that the coach knows perfectly well, to the student. Strong players are often mediocre teachers for the very reason that they are unable to stoop to the student's level of understanding and sincerely do not understand that the things obvious to them may not be so to others.
Many unskilled coaches teach "do as I do (say!?)", instead of helping their students to solve his own individual problems and shape his own play."
Well, 'coaching' now gone to ridiculous levels....and great Mark is oblivious to many things that happen in other parts of the world....if inability to transfer the understanding to the students is a serious issue on one side.......then.....
........
at times, silence expresses best!
"Knowledge" - the term per say implies both limitlessness and limitedness! Knowledge is a phenomenon....it happens....continuously.....and manifests itself in the glow. And, knowledge...or more precisely true-knowledge as a phenomenon happens when one transcends its very boundaries....the known....and slip into the unknown!
and this happens only when starts indwelling.....where the coach or the guru becomes a mere catalyst in the process.
Knowledge can never be imparted...transmitted (or atleast in the modern day understanding of the word transmission).....
The guru merely creates the preconditions for the learning to happen....and learning is always in the present continuous....!
The above position was reached in the game between Gligoric - Kotov, in the 1953 Zurich Candidates tmt. Hard to believe that this position resulted from Sicilian....and like any other chess position that one may encounter, this too is shrouded with mysteries...pluses and minuses....as the human mind perceives it...
....who can say with certainty that the position is going "this way" or "that way"!? Every individual mind will perceive it in a certain way....with the 'conditioning' that it has been subjected to...both externally and internally....externally - in the form of imparting "knowledge"; and internally - in the form of apprehensions which that very knowledge brought with it!
Well, even the player themselves, on many occasions, will not be able to assign the proper reason or more so...decipher the thought process, which "guided" him during the game. I am discounting those who pretend and boast....
And what can be said of the commentators...however great they may be! Well, they have to do their duty and justice by just recording what they feel, perceive...while studying a game multiple times...try and put them in the shoes of the player....transporting them to the period when it was played....and what about the personal conditions, stakes, tournament positions, so on and so forth....
And, if we take what the great Bronstein wrote in his book as sacrosanct,, then we will be doing injustice to him, the players, and ourselves!
Bronstein wrote: "White has achieved a definite advantage, his preparations are complete, and the moment has come to decide a fundamental question: in which was is the game to be won?
Sometimes the so-called natural moves are sufficient: occupy open files with the Rooks, get them to the seventh rank, attack a backward pawn, create a protected passer....
Many games are won by such unsophisticated means. "White's simple and logical clear moves bring his advantage to victory; White's attack develops by itself" - we read such formulae time and again. To win against an experienced opponent who takes advantage of every defensive resource, a player sometimes has to fight his way through the narrow path of best moves."
Bronstein gave a line which he thought would lead to advantage for White. He further gave a line where White could have expanded his Kingside pawns and launch an attack.
The game reached the following position......where Gligoric, reluctant to move his pawns as Bronstein thought he should have, and instead moved his Queen ten times (!!) and Rook four times in the next 19 moves....whilst allowing Black to plant both his Queen and Rook on the seventh rank with checkmate knocking the doors......
A mere comparison of this position with the first one leaves us wonder.....what happened...who tied the hands of the great Yugoslav master!?
Gligoric himself was a great player who produced many masterpieces and a very sharp player himself. Certainly the pawn advance which Bronstein and Najdorf mentioned in their respective books on this tournament, would have occurred in his thought process....and yet...
The same Bronstein and Najdorf....if they were sitting on the White side of the board....may or may not have played what they wrote...or thought while they wrote!
On another occasion, a different tournament setting....Gligoric may have played differently...allowing Kotov to respond or react differently....and turned the tables....or it at least level!
Such is the nature of human thinking....thought process.....fleeting and absurd! However great a person may be....!
Kafka said, "What one writes is only the ashes of one's experience"....I understand this statement in my own way....and differently at different times...with that "I".....which is ever changing...ever evolving.....
....and you, the reader, may understand it differently.....we may meet or may not...
So does the act of thinking in chess....
Everyone understands chess through their little keyhole (to borrow the term from Kafka himself!)- the doors of perception to the greater world
The doors of perception is grossly smaller....and the area that it opens out to is endless....
.....very fluid...very fluid...
.....very infinite......ever evolving....
.....never certain
.....very unique to every person...
.....and....
I remain...
Dvoretsky quoting Vladimir Levi - a psychologist - in his book "For friends and colleagues".
As a mark 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 guru....and he leaves behind a great legacy for the future generations....not just to follow...but to try and explore new ways, than merely parroting him....!
Dvoretsky forewarns about the sin that one may commit...albeit unintentionally.....in the foreword of the book "For friends and colleagues"...
"It is one thing to describe a certain principle, and a totally different one to comprehend its meaning, the sphere and limitations of its application. Inexperienced chess players often mindlessly use familiar rules in irrelevant situations, with sad or ridiculous results.
It is not easy to transfer the truths, that the coach knows perfectly well, to the student. Strong players are often mediocre teachers for the very reason that they are unable to stoop to the student's level of understanding and sincerely do not understand that the things obvious to them may not be so to others.
Many unskilled coaches teach "do as I do (say!?)", instead of helping their students to solve his own individual problems and shape his own play."
Well, 'coaching' now gone to ridiculous levels....and great Mark is oblivious to many things that happen in other parts of the world....if inability to transfer the understanding to the students is a serious issue on one side.......then.....
........
at times, silence expresses best!
"Knowledge" - the term per say implies both limitlessness and limitedness! Knowledge is a phenomenon....it happens....continuously.....and manifests itself in the glow. And, knowledge...or more precisely true-knowledge as a phenomenon happens when one transcends its very boundaries....the known....and slip into the unknown!
and this happens only when starts indwelling.....where the coach or the guru becomes a mere catalyst in the process.
Knowledge can never be imparted...transmitted (or atleast in the modern day understanding of the word transmission).....
The guru merely creates the preconditions for the learning to happen....and learning is always in the present continuous....!
The above position was reached in the game between Gligoric - Kotov, in the 1953 Zurich Candidates tmt. Hard to believe that this position resulted from Sicilian....and like any other chess position that one may encounter, this too is shrouded with mysteries...pluses and minuses....as the human mind perceives it...
....who can say with certainty that the position is going "this way" or "that way"!? Every individual mind will perceive it in a certain way....with the 'conditioning' that it has been subjected to...both externally and internally....externally - in the form of imparting "knowledge"; and internally - in the form of apprehensions which that very knowledge brought with it!
Well, even the player themselves, on many occasions, will not be able to assign the proper reason or more so...decipher the thought process, which "guided" him during the game. I am discounting those who pretend and boast....
And what can be said of the commentators...however great they may be! Well, they have to do their duty and justice by just recording what they feel, perceive...while studying a game multiple times...try and put them in the shoes of the player....transporting them to the period when it was played....and what about the personal conditions, stakes, tournament positions, so on and so forth....
And, if we take what the great Bronstein wrote in his book as sacrosanct,, then we will be doing injustice to him, the players, and ourselves!
Bronstein wrote: "White has achieved a definite advantage, his preparations are complete, and the moment has come to decide a fundamental question: in which was is the game to be won?
Sometimes the so-called natural moves are sufficient: occupy open files with the Rooks, get them to the seventh rank, attack a backward pawn, create a protected passer....
Many games are won by such unsophisticated means. "White's simple and logical clear moves bring his advantage to victory; White's attack develops by itself" - we read such formulae time and again. To win against an experienced opponent who takes advantage of every defensive resource, a player sometimes has to fight his way through the narrow path of best moves."
Bronstein gave a line which he thought would lead to advantage for White. He further gave a line where White could have expanded his Kingside pawns and launch an attack.
The game reached the following position......where Gligoric, reluctant to move his pawns as Bronstein thought he should have, and instead moved his Queen ten times (!!) and Rook four times in the next 19 moves....whilst allowing Black to plant both his Queen and Rook on the seventh rank with checkmate knocking the doors......
A mere comparison of this position with the first one leaves us wonder.....what happened...who tied the hands of the great Yugoslav master!?
Gligoric himself was a great player who produced many masterpieces and a very sharp player himself. Certainly the pawn advance which Bronstein and Najdorf mentioned in their respective books on this tournament, would have occurred in his thought process....and yet...
The same Bronstein and Najdorf....if they were sitting on the White side of the board....may or may not have played what they wrote...or thought while they wrote!
On another occasion, a different tournament setting....Gligoric may have played differently...allowing Kotov to respond or react differently....and turned the tables....or it at least level!
Such is the nature of human thinking....thought process.....fleeting and absurd! However great a person may be....!
Kafka said, "What one writes is only the ashes of one's experience"....I understand this statement in my own way....and differently at different times...with that "I".....which is ever changing...ever evolving.....
....and you, the reader, may understand it differently.....we may meet or may not...
So does the act of thinking in chess....
Everyone understands chess through their little keyhole (to borrow the term from Kafka himself!)- the doors of perception to the greater world
The doors of perception is grossly smaller....and the area that it opens out to is endless....
.....very fluid...very fluid...
.....very infinite......ever evolving....
.....never certain
.....very unique to every person...
.....and....
I remain...
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