Hitting the books again
I read somewhere that Tal used to watch TV programs on chess. They were for beginners so it’s suprising that a strong GM like Tal would learn anything from such programs.
But Tal said that it is good to go back to basics sometimes no matter how simple and fundamental it is.
I’m going back to learning programming from the basics again. Just got a book to study PHP programming which is the language I’ve been programming with for 10 years but never owned a single book on! Just like chess, in programming, it is good to brush up on fundamental theories and what seems like simple technical details.
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One is never too old to review fundamental concepts in chess, sometimes it is even necessary to re-learn the game if you feel that you have not progressed for a long time. I did it 3 times and only in the last time did I manage to move in the right direction.
The human mind does forget information that it never uses..so its good to refresh. Esp endgames like B + N vs K, R + B vs R, R + N vs R and Q endgames are good examples.
Often the bottleneck in a chess breakthrough lies mainly in us learning bad concepts without knowing and practicing them to perfection. Haha.. perfecting your mistakes happens but not too many are aware that they are doing it.
Hence I think perhaps Malaysian chess can do much better if players play less and analyse more (without computers first, then check their analysis with it).
John Wong
Singapore
I am not gonna learn the C language basics again after leaving it for so many years. LOL …