chess to improve the basic formula is to remove the negative aspects of our game and increase positive. Of course this is speaking very simplistic, but essentially this: I take the bad, or at least decreased and add "active" or good things, skills, knowledge, attitudes, physical or mental conditions.
So the main thing, so we need to start is by making a map of ourselves and determined to have negative and positive aspects we have and what we lack.
For this mapping we need to have benchmarks to identify what is negative and is positive. With respect to positive we must have a model, a catalog to compare positive and know that we lack.
Fortunately there is much experience in all that. Very often mention that for decades met at conferences, seminars or workshops Soviet dozens of coaches and discussed all sorts of things, study methods, types of activities, results of educational experiments, psychological problems in learning or playing, etc. , all tried and there are many course records and three thousand or more titles of books on many subjects and tens of thousands of published articles.
In previous articles to the question: How to choose a coach? One of the parameters is obvious: She starts working with a diagnosis? Well if you start classes without knowing that a student knows or what level is, more or less accurately, is acting blindly, does not have a clear methodology. In academic classes the teacher has a record of each student, knows he has been studying step by step a range of issues before coming to class, then the teacher has a clear reference to what is supposed to know or not know your student a "mapping" more or less of their positive or negative. But in chess, in countries like mine, where people study chess outside an orderly system to initiate a basic course to be forming a file with a diagnosis of the student. Is a necessary step and very necessary in most cases, unless I personally know the student well in advance, but either way a party a diagnosis.
So to improve, we have to make a precise inventory of oneself. The funny thing is that many do not. Perhaps the "syndrome of the telegram" we do not read them because often bring bad news. But worse is ignorance. I have a friend who never made a medical examination, it is certain that when you do you will be given bad news. So there are chess players who do not want to "diagnose" fearing find that they have hundreds of negatives and few positives. I say "you will have great opportunities for improvement."
As a coach working extensively to develop tools to diagnose or monitor the status of my students. Realize many placement exams at the beginning and then try to meet me control or monitoring tests whenever possible, do not nag my students, because most have some reluctance to be answering exams. This is perhaps due to the bad times that we all go to school exams. O "syndrome telegram."
An excellent cure for those with phobia telegram was email. As every day we have to open many, we realize that there is more good news than bad and both open and gives them a bad a less alarmist and takes a more calm. It's a familiarity that frees us from fear. If you fear something, enfréntesele continuously and do not exaggerate their fear. So here the recipe is clear: diagnostíquese continuously, which is also an excellent exercise.
But the basic is to know oneself, one recommendation that has made all the great thinkers of mankind. To know there are hundreds of instruments, because as many of us are aware of the importance of the diagnoses, do not you do it in every critical position in a chess game, or hundreds of times a year? Coaches and teachers have worked hard to develop all sorts of tools to support them.
out of three chess books published in the USSR, you had to do with it, or could be used to diagnose. At a time
collect methods for diagnosis, exercise meters, etc.., I built up such a library that I had to make rigorous selections, because unless the new students will have to send a huge book that answers it and then make your diagnosis and make your record. I have to make a more practical way, but I know that the first diagnosis is superficial and with some imprecision, but in practice enough to start work, then come monitoring and small "diagnostic" whether the test their tournament play, with comments or questions, or answers to questionnaires that I'm trying periodically answer.
Unfortunately for players who do not have the support of a coach, the diagnosis is more complicated, because even need a guide to identify positive and negative. On the other hand there are many books like "How good is your chess?", "1001 test of chess", "Solitaire Chess" and so on.,, Between them are so good the GM Zenon Franco Ocampos published in English King GM and is in English and translated into English. "Solitaire Chess" a section for 40 years, holds "Chess Life and Review" is a valuable material for diagnosis, both when the head of the column was IA Horowitz, as the current one is Bruce Pandolfini. There are collections of articles incorporating those books. Another good section of "Chess Life" was "Whats the Best Move?" Written by the late GM Larry Evans, who was the best there was in English. But many English-language magazines have sections on "Assess your chess" or "challenge yourself", that provide material for diagnosis. A great tool for diagnosing what is our opponent, we sample, especially if it is stronger than us, our negative. And the best way is with a detailed analysis of our games, so all the great coaches say it's essential to overcome.
Knowing yourself is an important step, but must be followed by another: Handle with that information and work side by side.
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