Hi there.
In this election, we're going to talk about how you actually can use different types of experience.
In fact, you don't just play and play and play and learn from your game.
You can do that as part of your ways of gaining experience.
And that is an essential way of gaining experience.
You yourself playing.
But you could also have other learning experiences, the classic old school method, I suppose, and
you can even download them now quite immediately.
You don't even need to have them delivered to you.
And for me.
The offer I gained maximum leverage from, in my view, is Irving Chernof.
He has books which will fill you with passion for the game, essentially there's a classic book, Logical
Chess Move by Move, which is a great start by him.
And you might also find some other books.
He's written very, very good, like the most instructive games of chance ever played.
So there are some key authors of me, John F..
Yes.
So and the American Grandmont, the answer seven has a whole series.
So classic books which you can conveniently get now you don't even have to use up the Amazon rainforest.
You can actually just download them, look at the star ratings, but they're all classic authors.
So China for me is great.
Absolutely great as an example.
And yes, someone needs to stand out for me for the classic books.
You can also online look out for the streamers ice cream in the evening, for example.
Kings Cross the stream.
Yeah, I hope you don't miss my streams, although sometimes OK, I'm more talked about the of times.
Just bear that in mind, but try and look at my arrows.
I at least try and show what I'm thinking with arrows even if I'm tois.
If you can start to follow the analysis more and more, that's going to be really helpful.
There are also even, you know, chess podcasts to listen to, which you get insight from perpetual
chess podcasts.
That's an interesting one.
Sometimes that's helpful hints and tips there.
And there's YouTube channels, old stick mainly with where, you know, it's a strong player, especially,
you know, the Kings Cross, the channel, of course.
But there are channels like by AMS so and stuff which should probably prioritize.
So balafon you jump off on me is a very good I am to
and others, you know, especially by IM's onwards.
So five minute chess online could be enjoyable and great fun.
So you can sometimes play the fourth time patrol one of the beauties of that.
So this is a little confession.
Sometimes you do like to win on time, even in lost positions.
Sometimes you need some self encouragement in life generally that you do need a bit of the external,
you know, qualities, the extrinsic.
You don't need to feel like you can win occasionally.
So sometimes, even if it's on the clock, it's still a win.
And that's motivating to so at least give you more experience of chess you don't like.
Think I can't win a single game.
Okay, sometimes go to the controls and see if you can actually
use extrinsic methods, even if a win probability.
That is an experience in itself.
I know the emphasis is on the purity, the learning about the game, but also if you can experience
winning occasionally and if you have to lower the time to do that, then that's not entirely terrible
because I myself really enjoyed five minute chess and the thrill of it against the clock.
But ideally, in an ideal world, you should be more perfectionist.
It's all about winning on position, independent of clock.
But I've, you know, five minutes.
The Blitz Time controls online are the most popular and maybe you don't want to become a grandmaster
in the future.
You just want to enjoy your little chess.
So maybe it's a kind of balanced diet perspective.
You can throw it in the mix some some three minutes or five minutes even.
I'll try and stay away from bullet chess.
That really is just pointless, mindless generally, unless you're really, really strong later.
Most of it's pointless.
Why kill random moves?
It's like you become a random move generator.
So anyway, you want ideally games where you aren't reflective and thoughtful and it's worth learning
some lessons after.
So the longer time limits especially, it's worth checking over.
If you're playing like super fast time, then a lot of the mistakes will be because you've just become
a random generator, essentially.
So you want to be wary of that.
But sometimes, you know, as I say in your initial steps, you might want the failure of winning sometimes
occasionally, or just relaxing when you don't even need to.
Calculates how many variations, it's more about your intuition, intuition, and maybe from the scores,
you get a little bit of intuition about chess, which you can test.
So intuition is like you can play moves on fill, but it only comes with experience, really you really
need to go to town on this cause to get a level of intuition where basically you're going to need to
calculate and work hard at the boards and your initial weeks, months and years of chess off.
When he started, he was using basically all of his available clock time.
Only later he was becoming quicker.
Intuition is something you develop later.
But and eventually.
Yeah, I mean, it's it's a lot of fun to be had on the fast time controls.
But as you can, especially in the over the board world, play things like rapid chess.
That could be fun as well, as well as the normal club time controls, which are usually more than an
hour and a quarter of your moves.
And then at time on the end.
So if you ever join a chess club, it's it's a more serious time control.
You're spending basically a certain evening playing one game and it's that one game you definitely want
to take home and draw the lessons.
Conclusions from it was a meaningful game where you had ample time, opportunity to put the work in
at the board.
And you might think, hold on to this question.
What moments be thinking about in the course of an hour or whatever?
I'll tell you now, I think I have a season recently.
I want to be super nerdy about the opponents downsides of the position.
When you see a strong move, look for an even strong one, be the super nerd.
So, OK, I can win that -- and you spend more time.
Hang on.
I can actually get a winning attack instead.
So the time gives you an opportunity to find almost as though you're finding a stronger and stronger
move goal, being super nerdy about the downsides of the pants position.
You're not being content with one particular downside.
You're looking at finding others.
So yeah, the more nerdy you are, the more time you can spend, the more meaningful it will be to analyze
the game after.
If you go to a club match, which is supposed to be for the entire evening and you're only spending
like less than a minute on each move and your game is over in fifteen minutes, then it's not great
for taking that game home and drawing conclusions from you really want to give it your best shot, like
on every single move generally when you first start, but try and not lose on time and balance, trade
offs and everything you want to like try and play quality moves.
But when I did at the time or so, and it's not like an equal amount of time for each one, if you want
to especially kind of attack the more important positions, the turning points, which could really
decide the game, you know, when you're about to win material, whatever, they could really decide
the game and make it much easier after that point.
So those critical junction points where you have a big influence on the game outcome, you might want
to spend more time there.
And that's a skill in itself, of course, to identify the more critical positions which could have
a game result influencing outcomes.
So anyway.
Yeah, so you can have Internet chats, especially nowadays, it's the main thing in current circumstances,
and so that is one of the main experience playgrounds.
But try and get along.
The time patrols went over, the board opens up.
There's even things called Thomas these weekend Tilghman's or almost Holman's.
So that's more organized chess.
Be careful about the rules.
Check out the rules section, maybe revise those rules before you go.
And generally don't take your mobile phone to venues if you do platforms and eventually you might.
Even playing the higher section in your writing, like Baphomet in Queens, I'm in that place, so essentially
the point of this lecture is there are a variety of ways of gaining experience that involve multimedia,
online over the board, different time controls, podcasts, videos, books, you name it coaches can
give.
Solving tactical puzzles is another way.
So there's a whole diverse way.
Hold them a set of chess activities which might actually influence and improve your understanding and
awareness of chess generally.
And that's your golden goose laying golden eggs, the golden goose is your internal understanding,
quality, internal quality, understanding of chess and the golden eggs is like your rating, etc.,
which are extrinsic.
You know, you don't want to worry too much about the writing.
You want to think about the golden goose.
This is balance.
You do want some eggs later.
Golden eggs later.
So there's a classic book which talks about this at length, this balance between the internal and external,
the seven habits, you know, of, you know, highly successful people.
The Seven Habits book talks about, you know, you've got to look after the golden goose to lay the
golden eggs.
So same in chess, but how do you look after the goose?
Yeah, variety.
Because actually you might actually prefer certain ways of gaining experience than others.
There might be.
A certain speed and magnetism you have to certain methods for me, you know, Chernov books gave you
a massive acceleration of great stuff, passion, all notebooks of passion myself.
And these are the methods, you know, finding the right medium for you personally, tailored to you
personally, essentially, if you don't do the experimentation of different methods that you might not
tune into what really can maximize your learning in the initial stages.
But you try and learn about chess and not just go for the results.
It's this balance.
Look after the goose and then you'll get the golden eggs of the basically.
But how would you look after the ghost?
Find the what?
The right ways of learning which are right for you.
And hopefully, if you're like me, you might enjoy Chernof in particular and might get quite a few
of his books as well to extend whatever you learn in this course.
OK, so I have that points clear match.
You're kind of learning interests and your preferred major etc to the variety of methods that do exist
in chess.
And chess is such a popular game now that there are lots of different avenues to gain insights about
the game.
OK.
And so much.