

In my group the ELO evaluations varied from 2000 to 2200. Thus, the approximate level of each pupil was established. Those ones with no rating underwent an ELO-test. On the first lesson, I formed a database of pupils with ELO rating. Duration of the session should be 60 minutes or more. I agree with Pavel Lobach, a known Russian trainer that "solving the combinations daily must become a regular part of a daily sporting routine for a chess player, the same as food and sleep" I always insist that my pupils followed this rule.Ģ. Learning sessions take place every day except the tournament days. Methodical Recommendations for Using CT-Art in Chess Trainingġ. One should fight this tendency and work in the training sessions as intensely as if it was a real game! The ideas, concrete methods and combinations re-occur repeatedly, and one should study them vigorously. Very often the learning tasks are being solved "by eye". Perhaps it is some peculiarity of the human psychic that prevents us from prolonged thinking when looking at the monitor. It is especially appropriate because it provides a model of a real-time chess game, although in practice has shown that the pupils sometimes fail to use it in the most efficient way. We appreciate the "move by move" basic principle of this program.
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Currently a new version of the CT-Art program is available which includes 5 complete courses and over 10,000 exercises. It still does not have a decent matching rival. Since computers became available for pupils, the basic program for enhancing the sporting aspect of chess has been CT-Art, developed by GM M. Petrosian Chess Club, I have accumulated some practical experience of teaching this most complex component of the chess game. Capablanca, noted once: "Chess is 90 per cent tactics".Ī well known paradox which has been proven in practice many times: "It is not enough to make forty perfect moves to win a game, when a single bad one suffices for defeat."Īfter eight years of work in the computer class of the T.V. Teichmann, being "one of the most subtle positional players" according to J. When coming to the computer class, the kids would often ask me: "Which is more important in chess, strategy or tactics?" It is well known that strategy answers the question "What to do?", and tactics answers the question "How to do it?" A chess player must answer both questions during each phase of a chess game. "Combination is the soul of chess" - Alexander Alekhine (1935) Which is More Important? By Irina Mikhailova, WGM
