(Easier said than done! My favourite chess quote: “Every chess player should have a hobby.”)ħ. Unless you’re Magnus Carlsen, don’t take any of this too seriously. Should go without saying, but don’t taunt others.Ħ. If someone tries to taunt you or insult you in the chat, do your best to ignore it and just play your game. I don’t always follow this advice myself…ĥ. New games Kamsky-Mamedyarov, World Cup 2013 Ivanchuk-Harikrishna, FIDE World Championship 2004 Carlsen-Anand, Moscow 2013 Nisipeanu-Ivanchuk, FIDE World Championship 1999 and Sasikiran-Short, Skanderborg 2003 have been added. If you’re on a losing streak, take a break. Grandmaster Andy Soltis has revised The Inner Game of Chess Mongoose Press, 2014, 324 pages, originally published 20 years earlier. Play chess (the game), not Elo (the meta-game).Ĥ. Don’t get too hung up on your Elo rating. The author discusses common obstacles to clear visualization and offers techniques to overcome them in your own play.This 21st-century edition of Soltis's celebrated work features new material and revised analysis, while retaining all the insights that made The Inner Game of Chess an instant classic. It might work, but only on weak players, and either way you’ll lose an opportunity to learn.ģ. What exactly does it mean to calculate, anyway In The Inner Game of Chess, GM Andy Soltis shows that the key to good calculation is good visualization of the. Don’t try to psych your opponent out by playing really fast. Use your opponent’s time for strategizing use your own time for tactics.Ģ. Image Credits: By Jorge Royan | Wikimedia Commons | CC BY-SA 3.1. A kind of dialogue, partly scientific and partly magic, analytical and, at the same time, intuitive, eloquent and silent, takes place in this kind of mental duel that is the game of chess. According to professor Klaus, dean of Philosophy at Humboldt University, “man learns better playing than listening to abstract lessons” That explains the impact of the “king of games”: it teaches through practice, for it combines, at the same time, self-control, control of the mind and analytical discipline by progressively developing the practice of logic. That is the reason why it is easier to learn the logic and the practice of the game directly on the checkerboard rather than in a “handbook of strategy”. Being aware of tactical motifs knowing when to stop looking and verifying your chosen move are essential, but they all depend on the basic requirement to see. The game of chess is based on intelligence and concentration. In The Inner Game of Chess, GM Andy Soltis shows that the key to good calculation is good visualization of the position in front of us and then after the moves we’re considering. The checkerboard symbolizes both the space where the cosmic forces operate and the human inner space where man fights against himself, in other words, it is the Kurukshetra of the Indian Mahabharata.
“Nothing is static” says Hermes Trismegistus in the Emerald Tablet which, with its 7 principles, synthesizes the entire wisdom of ancient Egypt. This represents life: permanent and changing. These are in a process of continuous transformation with the modification of one of the 3 lines of the Trigrams. The 8 Trigrams with their 8 combinations represent the 64 changes or states of transition. The number of electrons is approximately 1079, while the number of unique chess games is 10120. There are 64 hexagrams in the I Ching, the Chinese Book of Changes compiled by Confucius. The number of distinct 40-move games in chess is far greater than the number of electrons in the observable universe. It comprises 64 squares, sixty-four being the number of the realization of cosmic unity. The checkerboard represents the visible world under the rule of black and white or yin-yang duality.
The black and white pieces symbolized darkness and light, the war between the Titans and the Gods or the Asuras and the Devas. We also know that, in its beginnings, the game of chess was part of the strategy of war and was therefore applied to the Kshatriya (warrior caste). Though the origin of the game of chess is still unknown and mysterious, it is quite certain that it originated in the East, though it is the West that became infatuated with it.
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