HOW TO BEAT TITLED PLAYERS

by GM Igor Smirnov
The instruction for the practical part

After a study of the video lessons you have received a certain set of
knowledge. Now it is necessary to put the received knowledge into
practice. This practical addition to the course will help you with it.

The practical course contains 7 parts (they are presented in separate

folders). The separate instruction is applied for each task. You should carry
out all the tasks consistently, following the corresponding instructions.

While making these tasks you will find a lot of position, where you
need to find the following move. Please, take note of the main purpose of
such training: you should THINK about it, APPLY the general ideas (from
the video lessons), UNDERSTAND deeper how these ideas work
practically. There is no “wrong” or “right” answer here (it is not a tactical
puzzle).

The notes:

 In all the tasks the winner starts to move. So you can look at the
result of the game to realize whose turn is it now. Also you will see
the text note about it.
 You should think about the 1 position no more than 15 minutes.
 In most tasks you will need to find a following move in a give
position.Then you will look at the answer. While looking the

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 answers I recommend you to go over the whole presented game
(not only the first move). These games are very instructive and you
can find a lot of useful ideas there.
 Remember that you should focus on the quality of your training, not
on the quantity of the performed work.
 Do not use the computer engines during the performing of the
tasks. To train your skills you should think by yourself.
 If something will not be clear to you - learn once again a
corresponding video lesson.
 The chess games are presented in *.pgn format. Any chess program
can open it. All these games have the text copies for printing also.
 If you can’t open any text files – use the folder “Text files for an old
soft”.

Now you should start to perform the tasks of this course, starting from
the “Part 1”.

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