Lessons from a chess grandmaster
August 13, 9:50 PM
Chess Examiner
Steve Goldberg
Today, on day 3 of the U.S. Chess School, GM Gregory Kaidanov began speaking about avoiding time trouble.
To avoid chronic time trouble, Kaidanov advises, “For the next few months, start focusing on this, like it is the only problem in your chess. So it means that when you enter your next tournament, your result will be irrelevant. Whether you lose all of your games, or win your games, is completely irrelevant. Your main focus is not getting into time trouble.”
“If you lose all your games, but in none of the games you are in time trouble, you won the tournament. That’s how you should think about it, because this is the only way to fight this problem.”
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Boring. Why not open it for all students?