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To the world of CelticDeath. Follow my trials and travails as I attempt to improve from a mere Class C chess player to ranks of National Master. Fasten your seatbelts. The ride will not be and easy one, and the journey has just begun....
posted by CelticDeath at 2:00 PM
5 Comments:
Welcome Celtic Death! Glad to see a fellow class C-er out there with a mission. If you are going to take up de la Maza's program, let me know. There are seveal of us following it, and we are all cross-listing.
Good luck.
-Don Q
http://mandelamaza.blogspot.com
Thanks, Jens and Don! I'm loosely following De La Maza's ideas. I believe there is a lot of merit in his suggesstions, but that the DLM way is only good to a point for certain aspects of chess knowledge - and even then it must be tweaked as I noticed on your blog that you are discovering.
Tweak is definitley the word. I am following the program pretty closely. The only major change I have made is to cut the problems from 1209 to 1039 which is actually in the confines of de la Maza's recommendations. I have suggested that one might try 10 smaller circles rather than the 7, but alas I will not get to try it out.
The thing that de la Maza's program has in it's favor is that it is 1) limited in time and 2) it is an established path. The greatest risk to your success is that you will become distracted by life (like any healthy well-adjusted human being would) and stop doing it. When you are creating your own path as you go, it is hard to find it again when you lose it.
While I would not suggest de la Maza's approach as the only solution to a class players improvement program, I think it should be the first 5 months of everbody's plan.
Hello
Just wanted to say hi and welcome to the blogsphere. I wish you luck in your quest for chess improvement.
generalkaia
Welcome Celtic Death! I hope you will enjoy the ride as much as the rest of us. Despite our bitching at times we wouldn't do this if we didn't love it.
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