Started "Logical Chess". About a third of the way I stepped back to play more. Coming back the game seems bland.
I'm wondering if I may have out grown it's usefulness. It's a great book but seems almost too basic (it's purpose). I'm encroaching on 1000 now so I'd rather put time into other books for things like tactics.
It was a good book though.
Posted Feb 25, 2021, 3:01 AM UTC
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Are you talking about logical chess move by move?
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You might be missing some of the bigger pictures of the book. It isn’t simply about the moves that are being played but rather an important idea to keep in mind in the games you play. For example chapter one, is about how you can exploit a weakness in a kings defense and cripple it. While that idea itself might be made very obvious by game 2 or 3 in it the ways to go about that and exploit it are things that can take some more knowledge to understand
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The book is pretty simple in what is said but for good reason. If you finish the book and think you haven’t learned much at all you might want to go back and read the first page or so in each chapter and make sure you were able to understand what happened in each game and where one side went wrong or right. The book isn’t going to teach you the things that will bring you from 1k-2k on whatever website you play but will allow for the building blocks of positional play that you will need as you dive in and read or study other books and games