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Re: GM Repertoire 1 - 1.d4 volume one out in 3 weeks
Reply #62 - 04/14/09 at 07:47:05
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I find it funny that my statement that it is healthier to allow the student to choose his own openings, that you can become a GM even with absolutely elementary flaws in your tactics (Shaw) and that no top player is truly universal, became that tactics are not important and that you should not play the open games. 

I have strong opinions and share them with my students. I recommend 1.d4 to some and 1.e4 to others, based on their approach. They all do tactics and they all do positional exercises. Otherwise I don't waste my time on them. However, the idea of only working on your weaknesses will exactly take you to the point where you do nothing really well. 

Personally I am very good at dynamics and some other aspects of chess. I have specific weaknesses, so I tend to avoid positions where they would be the most important aspect.

Just to keep the post here - Avrukh is now done with all Benoni-Chapters (there are many Benoni-lines) and is moving on to tougher stuff...
  
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Re: GM Repertoire 1 - 1.d4 volume one out in 3 weeks
Reply #61 - 04/14/09 at 05:36:27
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I really hope he has something good prpared against KID players in there...I always find myself in trouble there. Lately, I've just been playing d4 and transposing into a proper King's Indian.
  
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Re: GM Repertoire 1 - 1.d4 volume one out in 3 weeks
Reply #60 - 04/14/09 at 04:26:00
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Quote from http://www.qualitychess.co.uk/products/6/53/grandmaster_repertoire_2__1d4_volume...:

'We are expecting this book to be out in June/July.'

This is slightly off-topic but Marin, the author of 'Grandmaster Repertoire - 1.c4', came equal first in the Reykjavik Open with the assistance of his 1.c4 repertoire.
  
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Re: GM Repertoire 1 - 1.d4 volume one out in 3 weeks
Reply #59 - 04/14/09 at 01:57:04
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Let me get this straight. A little digression and some complaints from people claiming to "be confused" means that when we draw analogies or related issues, we're going to get bumped into another thread??

Oh common.

  
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Re: GM Repertoire 1 - 1.d4 volume one out in 3 weeks
Reply #58 - 04/14/09 at 01:17:52
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Bibs wrote on 04/13/09 at 21:25:41:

They may well feel refreshed due to not being here.

I will send them all a PM tomorrow to see if they are still keen. Wink
  
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Re: GM Repertoire 1 - 1.d4 volume one out in 3 weeks
Reply #57 - 04/13/09 at 21:25:41
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GMTonyKosten wrote on 04/13/09 at 14:18:01:
Having just looked at the list of moderators, I think the problem is probably that some of them have stopped coming to the Forum, or come very rarely nowadays. Maybe it is time to 'refresh' them?


They may well feel refreshed due to not being here.
  
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Re: GM Repertoire 1 - 1.d4 volume one out in 3 weeks
Reply #56 - 04/13/09 at 19:08:35
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I was responding to Antillian's comments on who should buy Avrukh's book. The larger subject was "advice" on what opening one should be playing. This particular book does have a lot of analysis in it, but are the repertoire suggestions really impenetrable for say, a 1750 player?


ghenghisclown wrote on 04/06/09 at 09:51:24:
I hear this kind of thing all the time. Sometimes 1900 is the cut-off, sometimes 2100. Most of the time it's 2000. So what do you do if you're 1998 or something? Rely on MCO? OH GOD NO.

Actually I think this advice is well....I'm trying to be polite...kind of not so good (not the rest of your post, the need to study some sublines is correct), Antillian.

Why do Silman and company make such determinations? I think such a thing applies when talking about a book that doesn't explain the pre-existing theory in something like the Najdorf or (certain lines of the) Grunfeld. The thought is that one should stay away from something if it's too tactical or theory-laden. This would be because of the tendency to fall into traps or play lines out of order/mix systems because of lack of appreciation or knowledge of the "why's" in a given line. On the other hand, maybe a 1700 with an extraordinary memory could pick up some winning ideas with the right book even in something like the sharpest Sicilian. 

Bottom line is that Masters say all sorts of things that don't really apply and it's hard for me to conceive of a dumber situation than this. A book written for less than 10% of chess players about a relatively safe way for White to pursue a positional advantage/ opening repertoire that will stand the test of time, somehow can't be read by the people that need it most. 

Who's buying these books anyway??


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Re: GM Repertoire 1 - 1.d4 volume one out in 3 weeks
Reply #55 - 04/13/09 at 14:35:42
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Markovich wrote on 04/13/09 at 12:55:46:
GMTonyKosten wrote on 04/12/09 at 17:47:10:

Indeed, is it really about an upcoming repertoire book?? Angry

No, it wandered off some time ago when I responded to ghengisclown's condemnation of Robert Synder's (a figure in L.A. scholastic chess) coaching practices.  Or maybe it wandered off when he brought that up, I don't know.

What is the best thing to do, start a new thread and hope the same people see it, or just blather on about the thing currently being discussed?  I suppose the former, but typically I've been too lazy to do it, and others have been also.

Often an off-topic remark is made very casually, someone answers, and before you know it, there have been four or five posts on that topic.  It would not have occurred to the original transgressor that his little off-topic remark warranted a whole new thread.  

Really if you expect the threads to remain free of digression, you need much more aggressive moderation.  Right now you have the opposite.  I complained repeatedly that how to play against 1.c4 was being debated in a thread on the 1.d4 d5 section of the board, and the moderator, I suspect more out of cussedness than anything else, refused to move it.

Further some quite rude posts are allowed to stand.  See above for examples.

In this particular case I dont see much of a problem. Very often when a book or line is of big interest the thread wanders of a little at time.

This happens a lot less when there is discussion about some obscure line in the Alekhine. Though of course that subforum is the summum of moderation Grin
  
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Re: GM Repertoire 1 - 1.d4 volume one out in 3 weeks
Reply #54 - 04/13/09 at 14:28:08
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Seams difficult to moderate not beeing on the forum almost daily - it is alot of activities.
  
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Re: GM Repertoire 1 - 1.d4 volume one out in 3 weeks
Reply #53 - 04/13/09 at 14:18:01
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Having just looked at the list of moderators, I think the problem is probably that some of them have stopped coming to the Forum, or come very rarely nowadays. Maybe it is time to 'refresh' them?
  
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Re: GM Repertoire 1 - 1.d4 volume one out in 3 weeks
Reply #52 - 04/13/09 at 14:11:45
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Agree with Markovich there. None of the moderators ever seem to do anything. Too much crass idiocy and rudeness allowed to pass. Largely absent. Though I was once, bizarrely, bowdlerised. Ouch.

Requirements: a certain level of chess knowledge, a modicum of sense, not too precious, not obviously barking, a sense of humour, a fair degree of presence.

Good book e-moderating by Gilly Salmon btw. More for academia than for here, but useful for Tony as someone involved in e-learning anyhow. 



  
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Re: GM Repertoire 1 - 1.d4 volume one out in 3 weeks
Reply #51 - 04/13/09 at 14:08:33
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Think we already had a thread covering current topic - http://www.chesspub.com/cgi-bin/yabb2/YaBB.pl?num=1236878847

Isn't surprised that a third (or whatever) thread is nestling into the original thread (forgott what it was about).

I totally agree with Marcovich. It's the moderator that is responsible for the threads beeing focused and that the standard of adressing each other is proper, or not.

Sometimes the thread in the thred in the thread could be very interesting by itself. I'm sure it could be better exposed, and certainly easier to find later if a new thread was started.

There isn't any right or wrong. If we want to be carried away and we do appreciate a standard where insulting is not unusual I think we are on the right track.

Personally I think it is, to some extent, a waste of time that could be better spent on studying chess. I say unfortunately since there is a lot of really really good stuff on the Forum. 
If you are alerted a number of times of a new post in a thread you really are interested in only to discover that it is about something else then at least I do feel cheated. A lot of the really good stuff could be lost.

Again, I beleave it is up to the moderator to set the standard.

  
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Re: GM Repertoire 1 - 1.d4 volume one out in 3 weeks
Reply #50 - 04/13/09 at 13:50:58
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If you tell me at exactly which post to split it I will make a new thread. I agree about the moderators - maybe you should be a Moderator yourself?
  
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Re: GM Repertoire 1 - 1.d4 volume one out in 3 weeks
Reply #49 - 04/13/09 at 12:55:46
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GMTonyKosten wrote on 04/12/09 at 17:47:10:

Indeed, is it really about an upcoming repertoire book?? Angry

No, it wandered off some time ago when I responded to ghengisclown's condemnation of Robert Synder's (a figure in L.A. scholastic chess) coaching practices.  Or maybe it wandered off when he brought that up, I don't know.

What is the best thing to do, start a new thread and hope the same people see it, or just blather on about the thing currently being discussed?  I suppose the former, but typically I've been too lazy to do it, and others have been also.

Often an off-topic remark is made very casually, someone answers, and before you know it, there have been four or five posts on that topic.  It would not have occurred to the original transgressor that his little off-topic remark warranted a whole new thread.  

Really if you expect the threads to remain free of digression, you need much more aggressive moderation.  Right now you have the opposite.  I complained repeatedly that how to play against 1.c4 was being debated in a thread on the 1.d4 d5 section of the board, and the moderator, I suspect more out of cussedness than anything else, refused to move it.

Further some quite rude posts are allowed to stand.  See above for examples.
  
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Re: GM Repertoire 1 - 1.d4 volume one out in 3 weeks
Reply #48 - 04/12/09 at 20:07:33
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Chess improvement is all about maximising our strengths and subtracting negatives from our game. Like John Shaw and Keith Arkell a player may avoid initiating tactics in their games,  but they must be aware and capable of analysing, anticipating, countering and neutralising tactics  


Well yes, that goes without saying. I don't believe Aagaard said that to avoid the open game and excessive calculation means avoiding all tactics and calculation.

I don't think this thread is confusing at all, probably it's the cognitive dissonance talking.

What's confusing to me is the curious lack of admission by some members of the forum that even if you agree with Zak's methods, what he did in this instance was wrong.
  
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