Hi Stacia - I do my flashcards now in Chessable, so they come up on a periodic basis for review that way. Thank you for all you do on this great channel of yours. You are a great inspiration to us adult improvers (I am older than you by some way!). Now I love the John Bartholomews and Andras Toths of this world, but as a mere mortal, it's also good to have someone I can relate to much more I think. Good luck on your continuing journey - I am sure you have lots of successes to come! PS I love the motto "you never lose if you learn".
Great video, love the insight! I finally started making my flashcards based on the GM-RAM book along with a Chessable course. I've been inspired ever since I saw a picture of your first flashcards.
Hi Stacia, this is an amazing lesson ! I have added it to my favourites for future reference. Your journey is so inspirational to me. I will follow you all the way to your chess title. I am sure you can at least make 2200. Take care and thank you for all your work.
I love the idea of using Lichess studies for flashcards! Do you have any tips for how to organize them? It seems like having one study with a thousand chapters would quickly become overwhelming. I'm thinking perhaps several different studies for different openings and categorizing endgames by the pieces on the board. I'm not sure what to do about middlegame tactics. What have you found works well for you?
Hmmm... I also use flashcards/spaced repetition, but am slowly coming to understand that this develops Knowledge mostly, not Ability. But chess strength is mostly Ability not Knowledge. So... the real question about Nh4 is not whether it was good and why, but rather, why EXACTLY did you not find it during the game, and what PRECISELY do you need to do in future to actually find moves of this level of complexity, indirectness, and branching in any position, not just in analogous positions. I am 20 years your elder and 200+ rating points your better, and have spent decades on non-optimal paths. (For example, the 53,000 tactical puzzles I solved on the old Chess Tactics Server, which turned out to be Necessary but not Sufficient.) GM Korchnoi once said: "Chess you do not learn, chess you understand." Without a nuanced understanding of the correct path, even prodigious efforts can be fruitless. There are many millions of diligent enthusiasts who will never be titled because that diligence is no substitute for the right path...
Thanks for your insights! I think what you said about understanding is so right on. Most of my mistakes lately are from lack of understanding. But there is one thing I know sure, if we do not know the tactics and checkmate patterns like amazingly well, then we will fail to understand positions! But even once we do know those well (a relative term), then those help inform us on what is going on in the position, but then the strategical stuff will win or lose games.
The right path is solving chess problems, at least 100 every day. Your brain will retain most of the positions like flash cards and classify them. After disciplined studies over reasonably long period, you will recognize patterns and take right actions.@@Sato-Azumaga
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Hearing your thinking process is very helpful.
Hi Stacia - I do my flashcards now in Chessable, so they come up on a periodic basis for review that way. Thank you for all you do on this great channel of yours. You are a great inspiration to us adult improvers (I am older than you by some way!). Now I love the John Bartholomews and Andras Toths of this world, but as a mere mortal, it's also good to have someone I can relate to much more I think. Good luck on your continuing journey - I am sure you have lots of successes to come! PS I love the motto "you never lose if you learn".
Good idea! And thanks, I'm trying!
Great video, love the insight! I finally started making my flashcards based on the GM-RAM book along with a Chessable course. I've been inspired ever since I saw a picture of your first flashcards.
Hi Stacia, this is an amazing lesson ! I have added it to my favourites for future reference. Your journey is so inspirational to me. I will follow you all the way to your chess title. I am sure you can at least make 2200. Take care and thank you for all your work.
wow thank you, Socrates! Glad you liked it. :)
Great video! How do you review them?
I love the idea of using Lichess studies for flashcards! Do you have any tips for how to organize them? It seems like having one study with a thousand chapters would quickly become overwhelming. I'm thinking perhaps several different studies for different openings and categorizing endgames by the pieces on the board. I'm not sure what to do about middlegame tactics. What have you found works well for you?
Hmmm... I also use flashcards/spaced repetition, but am slowly coming to understand that this develops Knowledge mostly, not Ability. But chess strength is mostly Ability not Knowledge. So... the real question about Nh4 is not whether it was good and why, but rather, why EXACTLY did you not find it during the game, and what PRECISELY do you need to do in future to actually find moves of this level of complexity, indirectness, and branching in any position, not just in analogous positions. I am 20 years your elder and 200+ rating points your better, and have spent decades on non-optimal paths. (For example, the 53,000 tactical puzzles I solved on the old Chess Tactics Server, which turned out to be Necessary but not Sufficient.) GM Korchnoi once said: "Chess you do not learn, chess you understand." Without a nuanced understanding of the correct path, even prodigious efforts can be fruitless. There are many millions of diligent enthusiasts who will never be titled because that diligence is no substitute for the right path...
Thanks for your insights! I think what you said about understanding is so right on. Most of my mistakes lately are from lack of understanding. But there is one thing I know sure, if we do not know the tactics and checkmate patterns like amazingly well, then we will fail to understand positions! But even once we do know those well (a relative term), then those help inform us on what is going on in the position, but then the strategical stuff will win or lose games.
so what is the right path
The right path is solving chess problems, at least 100 every day. Your brain will retain most of the positions like flash cards and classify them. After disciplined studies over reasonably long period, you will recognize patterns and take right actions.@@Sato-Azumaga
I apologize for peeking, but... You watch StarTrek? This is my favorite series, wow! Have you watched all the StarTrek by now?
hehe yes!
@@chessisbest I didn't finish The Next Generation (on the 5th season now) yet because the site I watched it on is blocked, but this is really good!
Very nice! Qd1 haha