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ReneDescartes God Member Offline Qu'est-ce donc que je suis? Une chose qui pense. Posts: 1240 Joined: 05/17/10 Gender:	Re: Yusupov - Book 1 - Level of Problems Reply #4 - 08/30/16 at 15:17:23	Post Tools	Print Post
	A third type of problem is "Here is a related pattern that I did not cover in the chapter." He uses exercises to teach some of the ideas. You are intended to churn away at the problem to understand the difficulty, probably fail to solve it, then be all the more receptive to the new pattern. In the opening of Build Up Your Chess I, the author says "mistakes are part of the learning process!" This is not bland consolation, but a precise statement, like "controlled muscle damage and repair is part of the marathon training process." Yusupov goes even farther in the new orange "Revision" book; there, he states that a perfect score is a practical impossibility for students at the intended level.
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chk God Member Offline a pawn is a pawn Posts: 1063 Location: Athens Joined: 10/26/06 Gender:	Re: Yusupov - Book 1 - Level of Problems Reply #3 - 08/30/16 at 12:03:38	Post Tools	Print Post
	Just to note that I concur from my experience with all that dfan mentions above.

	"I play honestly and I play to win. If I lose, I take my medicine." - Bobby
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Gerry1970 Senior Member Offline I Love ChessPublishing! Posts: 482 Joined: 02/01/06	Re: Yusupov - Book 1 - Level of Problems Reply #2 - 08/25/16 at 08:38:16	Post Tools	Print Post
	Thanks for the interesting post. I appreciate what you are saying about the positional/strategic chapters. And I liked the part about "I try not to feel too bad ...". I think part of it is with the other chapters you often can calculate a solution where in these chapters it is a different type of problem. I was interested in your comment about getting more out of these chapters and ideas sticking better. I had been thinking about starting a different thread on how I feel that I retain, or seem to retain, so little from master games I have looked at. I will do that now but you have given me something to think about. Thanks.


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dfan God Member Offline "When you see a bad move, look for a better one" Posts: 766 Location: Boston Joined: 10/04/05	Re: Yusupov - Book 1 - Level of Problems Reply #1 - 08/19/16 at 21:29:11	Post Tools	Print Post
	I think there are two kinds of problems. One sort (mostly in the calculation and endgame chapters) is "You have learned all the tools necessary to solve this in the lecture part of this chapter; now prove that you can utilize them." The other (mostly in the positional and strategic chapters) is "The lecture part of this chapter has given you lots of things to think about; try to apply those principles, think hard, and see what you come up with, then see what the GM did." I try not to feel too bad about not scoring highly in those tests. I think the idea is that if you spend a lot of time thinking about the problem (even if you don't get the correct answer), the solution and its ideas are more likely to stick in your brain.


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Gerry1970 Senior Member Offline I Love ChessPublishing! Posts: 482 Joined: 02/01/06	Yusupov - Book 1 - Level of Problems 08/19/16 at 20:47:18	Post Tools	Print Post
	Curious what people thought about the appropriateness of some of the problems. I am thinking of one in the Open Files and Outposts chapter such as the Karpov-Gligoric, San Antonio 1972. Here there is play on both wings at work so it seems way too sophisticated a problem for Book 1.


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