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20 April 2011
Practical Chess Exercises
1 of 1 found this helpful I have hundreds of chess books that I use for reference, to check my own openings, keep my mind sharp and to teach my K-8 chess students.
To learn or teach it is necessary to practice the ideas being studied in order to see their practical application to the games we play. A mate in 2 may have a nice idea (say remove the protection), but if you don't see it in your own games it is of little practical value.
The hard part in seeing them in your own play is priming the mind to be ready for them. This is why a young child may be very good at solving chess problems but miss the same idea when it appears in his games. With a chess problem, the mind is primed with the knowledge that an answer (mate in 2) is available. In a chess game most positions you face have no such readily available answer.
This book helps prime the mind for the playing experience by presenting the position as if it is from a real game. Ideas are mixed with common play. Sometimes there is a wild sacrifice that wins, sometimes there is a blunder check where the correct move is NOT playing a tempting sacrifice.
This book is a great tool for players who have already been taught all the basic tactics and combinations. It teaches how to find the tactics and to check to be sure they work. The times when there is nothing special in the position (called blunder checks) keeps the student honest in his evaluations.
The only way I would improve this book would be to add a CD with PGN files so the problems could be presented on the computer.
I recommend it to coaches and student alike.
- Murrel
06 December 2010
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The PC speakers by iMicro are a good inexpensive product that performs well. It's shortcoming is that all the wires and the power cable are too short! This means that you can't separate the speakers much more than to place one on each side of your monitor and the power outlet had better be on the floor right under the speakers. It's a shame I can't give them a higher rating, but the short cables reduce their utility.