Here are the main ones I am aware of, in no particular order:
The Step Method (Stappenmethode)
Chess.com’s Prodigy Course
Artur Yusupov’s 9-volume series
Igor Ivanov’s courses
Lev Alburt’s Comprehensive
Chess Course.
There are actually eight titles in all, I believe, for
Alburt’s course.
I haven’t included links, because I don’t sponsor any of
them, and I don’t want anyone thinking I’m an affiliate. You can google them
easily enough on your own if interested.
Instead, I’m attempting to be comprehensive, and I like
photos.
I have no desire to review each of them here; nor am I in a
position to do so, not having studied any of them to any significant degree.
This, finally, leads me to the primary point of creating
this blog. I’ve decided to study the 9-volume Yusupov series. As far as I can tell,
no one has done that yet. Not to completion. If anyone has, they either haven’t
written about it, or I cannot locate it.
Here is a point-by-point break down of my goal:
1.
Study a well-written and comprehensive chess
course to completion.
2.
Actually, truly study and learn the material.
3.
Stick with one book until it is completed.
4.
Compile a master list of the various tactical
themes and strategies that one should expect to learn en route to becoming a Master.
5.
Write about my experiences here.
Points 1-5 will be elaborated on in the next post.
In doing so, I hope to:
·
Provide the first in-depth and comprehensive
review available of the Yusupov training course;
·
Determine once and for all the ability for a
busy, active adult to improve his chess;
·
And finally, to share my experiences with others
in the hopes of my experience being replicated (in the case of my being
successful), or at the very least adding to the existing theory of adult chess
improvement, and my experiment serve as a platform for others to improve upon
in the future.
·
If not alone, then together we shall overthrow
the Chess Rating Stagnation Overlord! Okay, sorry for being dramatic…
No, I’m not. Never apologize for being who you are. It’s who you are, after all.
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