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Chess Instruction
Study Your Games "The problem I had to
acknowledge was the stagnation of my development. I was simply
going nowhere. It's not that I lacked experience - I was 28
years old then, and I had been playing chess for some 20 years up to
that point - it was a rather sad realization that my game was not
improving. In search for inspiration I decided to follow the
most common advice one can find in the works of Alekhine (my favorite
player) and Botvinnik (one of my least favorite ones) which can be put
into simple words - study your games. Ever since, every game I
played has been extensively annotated." Wise words from Yermolinsky who raised his game from being an also-ran to one of the strongest players in the world. Yet despite this, and the fact that two of the greatest champions have recommended this form of study, how many people actually do it? They persist in the belief that there is some short cut to success, such as buying a book or video on a particular opening. Rather than procrastinate about the benefits of these studies, I feel I should do something myself to set an example. I have not been analyzing my games much during the last few years, but I think it would be good to start doing so again. So here are my games from the 2002 Chorley Open. If you examine the notes carefully you may be surprised at how many mistakes I made; yet this is the ugly reality of most chess games when you look closely enough. The previous week I had a disastrous tournament in the Blackpool Quickplay, probably because of rust more than anything else. The following week I played quite a lot of blitz on the internet, but even at Chorley I started quite shakily. How could I have played this game better? The first step might be in playing an opening which is more ambitious and threatens to gain some space. My poor attempt to avoid a draw later in the game could easily have resulted in disaster.... Peacock,M - Davies,N
Davies,N - Lin Chin
Lee
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