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Lessons Learned Index of Columns
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Most aspiring players hear two pieces of advice over and over again: study master games, and analyze your own games, particularly your losses. In Lessons Learned we have combined these two pieces of advice, bringing you annotated master games, with a twist. The master who lost the game, is writing the annotations! You'll learn what went wrong, and why. You'll see up close and personally the process of analyzing your own losses. And you'll learn the lessons learned by the master from his or her loss. These games are annotated for the improving intermediate player, approximately ELO 1700-2100. Set up the pieces, or follow along on the JavaScript board we provide. Either way, get ready for some serious study, some hard work, and some important Lessons Learned! Special thanks go to Phil Innes and to Boris Yeshan (Russian
Chess) both for organizing the writing for this
column, and also for their efforts in translating the original text into
English. January 2004: In this debut column, GM Alexei Bezgodov takes a look at his game with GM Evgeny Najer in the 56th Russian Championship, 2003 Currently rated 2550 by FIDE, the 33-year old GM Bezgodov began writing in 1999 for the famous Russian-language chess magazine '64', and has since written for periodical and internet-editions including, in 2000, an issue of "Monthly News" for Kasparov's now-defunct site. His chess writing has received much acclaim for its high quality.
February 2004: Sakaev-Kasparov
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The newest Lessons Learned
comes from one of the world's top-50 players, GM Konstantin Sakaev
of St. Petersburg, Russia. Find out what it's like to sit across
the board from one of the fiercest competitors in chess history, as Sakaev
looks for the lessons to be learned from his loss to Kasparov in last year's
European Club Cup.
March 2004: A Defeat Which Could Not Be
Forgotten - Taimanov-Fischer. The 1971 World
Championship Quarterfinal Candidate's Match was just a stepping stone on
Bobby Fischer's path to the chess summit, part of his unparalleled 20-0
streak en route to his showdown with Boris Spassky. In today's Lesson legendary Russian
GM Mark Taimanov takes a fresh look back
at what both he and Fischer recognized as the turning point of the match,
a defeat Taimanov called "the most bitter game of my life...Some failures
are not so painful and hence quickly forgotten; others remain in the memory
for a long time..."
July 2004:
The
Most Difficult Thing In Chess...with GM Sergey Ivanov. This month's
Lesson is a perfect illustration of Emmanuel Lasker's wonderfully deep
thought, which was formulated by him almost a century ago: "The most
difficult thing in chess it is to win a winning position". The second World
Champion in history was a very wise man, he predetermined the rules of
chess development many years beforehand. A book about Lasker published in
the Soviet Union was not without reason called "Thinker". During the
intervening years millions and millions of games have been played but Lasker's postulate remains unshakable. And everybody from beginner to
grandmaster should remember it.
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