Tuesday, September 30, 2008

No leads...

I'm at the point where  I don't think I can get much stronger unless I study a whole bunch of random things intensely. So I enlisted the help of Vojislav Milanovic, an International Master.

I came to this conclusion pretty easily, as I have a library of chess books of about 35 books, and that I am one of those  "have all of Dvoretsky's books and still haven't got anywhere with chess" players. It's slightly depressing being in this group of chessplayers. It's almost like owning these books is like some sort of cardinal sin.

Anyway, I feel even with Voja's help, I think it is going to take a massive load of work on my part as well - as he can only help me with identifying weaknesses, not covering them. I believe this is a crisis many players have - discovering their weaknesses, through analyzing their own games, or having professionals identify them, and doing absolutely nothing about it except play another 300 blitz games, or are lazy.



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