Annotated Chess Games, Combinations, Endgames and Openings Here we provide:
Why does a plyer need annotated games? Well, you can purchase now or download game collections with million of games. My current Chessbase Megabase 2007 contains about 3.5 million games for example. Most of them aren't annotated. An annotated game includes explanations of an expert about the game. He will give hints about the choosen opening, strategical ideas and tactical errors. Reading these comments will give you a better insight of the game and probably you will later remember some key moments of this game when playing your own tournament games. You will know how to handle the position and follow the ideas of the previous game when possible. The more of these games you will know the better your results will be. Current chess programs (like Fritz, Shredder, Junior, Rybka, Zappa, etc.) solve tactical chess tests with lightning speed and almost no errors. The reason is that current hardware is so fast, that the programs can calculate millions of positions in short time. A human in tournament game is very likely to lose his game due to tactical errors. When you replay your tournament game and add a chess engine as observer you will find many tactical errors in your tournament games. Therfore your results will improve when you know or are able to solve all sorts of practical tactics from real tournament game sources. We provide you such tactical problems which you can solve by yourself first and then check the solutions. Again remembering all these tactical ideas in your tournament games will improve your results dramatically. All problems are tested with the leading chess engines. A good tournament player needs also expert knowledge of endgame theory. Endgame theory here means not to know the solutions for some artificial problems. It means that you know at least the knowledge like provided in Dworetky's endgame manual. We will provide you here more examples with explanations. Knowledge of opening theory is often overvaluated by young players. What you need is to start with a reliable and small opening repertoire. Later you can extend this to be less predictable for your opponents. We show you here how to build such a repertoire and how to use it in your tournament games.
Last update : 16-08-2008 22:45
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