Two and a half months of intensive blitz tactics practice has given way to a month of longer calculation exercises and deeper study of some annotated master games. I've cut Chess Tempo down to duplicates only on a daily basis so I have more time and energy for the other study.
Before moving forward, I wanted to post my two best wins from my previous cycle as encouragement (and to show off of course).
If I could've consistently converted my other winning games against 2000+ competition, I would've had an outstanding first quarter of 2015. I probably should do a series on those as it could prove useful in the future.
Where do you read annotated books from (name of the books)?
ReplyDeleteI started with Heisman's list of annotated books. You can read them in the order he has them listed.
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I would read them all at least through the Giants of Power Play book. You can skip the Nunn book on Middlegames if you want.
After about a year of doing those, you'll start to make your own lists of annotated books you're interested in as well as moving on to "best of " collections.