It won't have escaped people's notice that I haven't been doing as much to these pages over the last few years -- pressure of work and other projects have taken precedence, I'm afraid. Also, the club dropped the coaching sessions for a while, so I was not forced to write an article every fortnight or so.
That doesn't mean I don't have any more ideas about what to go here, I just lack the time to work things up into proper articles or handouts. So, I've set up this online notebook to record less developed thoughts and will add to it from time to time, perhaps including some e-mail exchanges, and also recording any other activity related to coaching in the club.
E-mails to the usual
address, but now you can comment directly on this page. I plan to
extend some sort of comments system to the rest of the site.-- DrDave, the one-eyed man... May 2008
See below for suggested timetable of sessions
It is clear that I haven't yet got the hang of this myself...
Lessons that can be applied elsewhere, I hope; if you have examples of games where you have struggled, send them in.
Sacrifices for attack and positional sacrifices.
I have to say, if this is the aspect of your game most in need of fixing, then count yourself lucky, but there are some general lessons to be learned.
Example games:
At the moment I'm thinking about starting as we did last year, asking everyone to list three things they do well (or are conscious of trying do well) and then three things that they want to get better at. Are they the same things as last year?!
I'm trying out a new comments system, vaguely anticipating a new season of coaching sessions. Suggestions and comments invited. What did I leave out last year?
Some of you may know that I've done a bit of work editing and typesetting for Hardinge Simpole, and my first project for them was pulling together everything I could find about the tournament in London in 1922 (which gave its name to the London System). It would have pleased me to be able to include some splendid cartoons that I've just come across: enjoy...
http://www.chesshistory.com/winter/winter14.html#3937._Comic_strips
I've re-worked this page to use PalView, which I think is wonderful; had I been starting from scratch now, I'd use it for everything.
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