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'(These) preparatory games must be resorted to not only in order to try out your opening schemes, but also to give you training in other respects. In particular, for a long time now I have told certain of our masters who regularly get involved in serious time-trouble how to overcome this weakness. Unfortunately, only a few masters have taken my advice, apparently, yet it is very simple. Training games must be played in which the first consideration is the clock, and not the quality of the play, or its result, and this play by the clock must be continued until making the best possible use of the time, including consideration of all the main variations, becomes a habit. I think this method would completely cure 90 per cent of those who suffer from "time-trouble sickness," and the exceptions would of course be incurable! ' from the foreword of '100 selected games' by Botvinnik
The question, how do I stand could refer to an objective assessment of how he looked physically after those hours. Maybe after hat time you lose some basic objectivity
A listener actually did some research and clarified what it meant, here is what he wrote... "After listening to your conversation about Think Like a Grandmaster, I was curious whether Najdorf was really asking other players to evaluate his position during games. I remembered reading something about this in The King by JH Donner. According to Donner, Najdorf "is buttonholing people all the time with his famous question: 'Bin ich nicht genial?'" When I plugged this into Google translate it came back with, "Am I not awesome?" I assumed this was just one of those weird translations, but it's exactly the translation that appears in Najdorf X Najdorf, a biography by Najdorf's daughter. So I think Kotov was a little off in his translation and Najdorf's famous phrase was really less of a question and more of a flex. At any rate, next time I have a good position, you can find me walking around the playing hall asking anyone within earshot, "Am I not awesome?"
Perpetual Chess Recaptured is brought to you in part by Chessable. If you are looking for a great improvement manual for club-level players, check out Chess Strategy for Club Players by IM Herman Grooten here: www.chessable.com/chess-strategy-for-club-players/course/27755/
'(These) preparatory games must be resorted to not only in order to try out your opening schemes, but also to give you training in other respects. In particular, for a long time now I have told certain of our masters who regularly get involved in serious time-trouble how to overcome this weakness. Unfortunately, only a few masters have taken my advice, apparently, yet it is very simple. Training games must be played in which the first consideration is the clock, and not the quality of the play, or its result, and this play by the clock must be continued until making the best possible use of the time, including consideration of all the main variations, becomes a habit. I think this method would completely cure 90 per cent of those who suffer from "time-trouble sickness," and the exceptions would of course be incurable!
' from the foreword of '100 selected games' by Botvinnik
Reminds me of the "fishbone diagram" used by the tech industry.
The question, how do I stand could refer to an objective assessment of how he looked physically after those hours. Maybe after hat time you lose some basic objectivity
A listener actually did some research and clarified what it meant, here is what he wrote...
"After listening to your conversation about Think Like a Grandmaster, I was curious whether Najdorf was really asking other players to evaluate his position during games. I remembered reading something about this in The King by JH Donner. According to Donner, Najdorf "is buttonholing people all the time with his famous question: 'Bin ich nicht genial?'"
When I plugged this into Google translate it came back with, "Am I not awesome?" I assumed this was just one of those weird translations, but it's exactly the translation that appears in Najdorf X Najdorf, a biography by Najdorf's daughter.
So I think Kotov was a little off in his translation and Najdorf's famous phrase was really less of a question and more of a flex. At any rate, next time I have a good position, you can find me walking around the playing hall asking anyone within earshot, "Am I not awesome?"
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