Great to see another episode with Andras Toth and you! These are two topics I am the most interested in currently: 1) how to improve my chess thinking, step by step? 2) how to analyze my own analyzed and annotated games to find the most essential element to improve on? I see so many mistakes and lack of wise strategic play. I am not aware of what I don't know and I can't improve everything all at once. How to prioritize? I hope you both have a lot of fun tomorrow!
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The idea "guess the move" is a very good choice. In a way it is finding the plan which is probably the most difficult thing to understand as it is closely linked with the evaluation of the position we are inspecting. BTW, thank you very much for the good work and the great efforts you are taking.
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I would love to hear in general about learning from master games. Guess the move is just one approach to learn from game collections but there are many other too. How do you, both experienced chess coaches, teach your students how to learn from master games and what sghould they learn from each game? Should they focus on attacking pattern, development, fight for the center, endgame strategy. I think it would also be helpful to point out what beginners should focus on when learning from master games and what the differences is to advanced level and above. Should you start out with guess the move or first follow the moves, understand what is happening and then guess the move as a space repetition learning process to get the patterns memorized? Do masters and coaches learn games of alhekine by hard or do they teach them so often that they just simply know them some day. Is it useful to memorize miniature games? Maybe you could cover some of these points, that would be very interesting for me 😁
1 month ago
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Nice! I'd love to hear you guys discuss more about common misconceptions by adult improvers: tactical, strategical, learning process, etc.
1 month ago
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Would love to see a video where you guys play against each other and both explain your thought process.
1 month ago
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Some topics I'm most interested in: Thought processes, training methodologies, and attacking chess.
1 month ago
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Great idea! A training method that gets a lot of lip service, but not discussed all that much that I’ve seen.
1 month ago
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I am interested in this guess the move training you Especially that I want to move into more of this training so seeing you two do it and think outloud would be super beneficial!
1 month ago (edited)
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I would like to see your guest playing one rapid game and his thought process. I would like to see you playing and talking about your decissions (maybe idea for new video series).
1 month ago
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I would love to see you both discuss how to prepare openings and maintain an opening repertoire
1 month ago
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For me, visualizing chess over the board is much harder that visualizing it while playing on screen, no matter how I train myself to play otb games. I would like to include this topic in the discussion please
1 month ago
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One topic I'd like to see discussed is the value of memorizing games. Does it help with improvement in any way?
1 month ago
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I think that many may not have ideas of what is best coming out of the opening, what direction should the game take, also chess principles in action through master games
1 month ago
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When doing tactics, I sometimes look at the book or screen for a few seconds then try to set up the position on the board. This was too difficult, so I started doing rank by rank. It's interesting how the mind sees and remembers...
1 month ago
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Because Andras has played a big role in me putting so much focus on calculation in my training, you guys should do something on that. Or some tips for amateurs to study masters games.
1 month ago
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Thematic ideas/plans of a opening played out till the end and playing non moves for the defending side to illustrate the desired piece placement and pawn structure and when and how to pawn break in said opening with the Thematic follow up included (KIA would be my preference) 😁 1setup, 2pawn break, 3attac
1 month ago
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Not related to chess improvement. But can you ask him what aspects he likes most about chess and can you answer it as well? What is it about chess in particular that separates itself from other games and activities
1 month ago
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I'd love a bit of discussion on time controls. I know the general advice is "the longer the better", but when it comes to the typical online games, is there really much of a difference. Is a 30+20 better than a couple of 15+10, or how about a few 10+5, is 10+0 even worth doing without increment?
1 month ago
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How about the queen sacrifices of Spassky... As a tribute to Spassky... The Andruet (2450) vs Spassky (2565) playing the Bogo is one i clearly remember...
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Dr. Can's Chess Clinic
Hello dear lovely community,
I’m recording a new podcast episode with IM Andras Toth this Wednesday, and we haven't locked in a topic yet! There are so many options to choose from ☺️
One idea I’m considering is Guess-the-Move Training, where we explore the merit of this training method and how to do it effectively. We can do a joint guess the move training from an instructive game, provided we don't remember the actual moves, obviously.
But before we finalize, I want to hear from YOU! 💬 What topics would you love to see us discuss? Please drop your suggestions below! 👇 I am sure I will invite him again in the future, so your ideas may help us shape our future episodes.
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