I've been testing myself over the years...I always think good night's sleep will give my brain a rest and ill be fresh in the morning..but I'm usually groggy and my chess is not so great. For some reason I play good chess from around 7 pm to maybe 12 am. My mind is active..In fact I had my best win OTB, and it was in the evening! Ended at 10:30 I think. I only play well in the morning when I have some coffee and something minimal to eat (something not too sugary, etc.) What time do you play best? In the morning, afternoon, or evening?

Kasparov vs. Topalov is everything a chess game should be, a ferocious fight with brilliance from both players, numerous tactical themes, and a king hunt that drives the king all the way from one side of the board to the other! It's difficult to imagine any other game atop this list, but we eagerly await new contenders in the coming years.


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Undisputed world champion from 2007 to 2013, Viswanathan Anand is one of the most fluid and intuitive players in chess history. Where Jose Capablanca's intuition served him best in the endgame, Anand's serves him best in the middlegame.

There is no greater rivalry in chess history than that between Garry Kasparov and Anatoly Karpov. The brilliant games they have contested could fill a substantial book.

This game from their world championship match in 1985 demonstrates Kasparov at his very best, offering a pawn sac in the opening, establishing a tremendous knight on d3, clamping down with 21...g5!! and always performing crisp calculation and tactics.

At the age of 13, Bobby Fischer alerted the world to his presence, winning one of the finest games of all time against IM Donald Byrne with the black pieces. Fischer's 11...Na4!! and 17...Be6!! constitute two of the great hammer-blows in chess history; together they decimated the white position.

The stakes could hardly be higher as this game was played in a rapid tiebreak in the world championship Candidates' cycle. Needing to win, Artur Yusupov gave it his all, swinging each piece he could into the assault and eventually overcoming Vassily Ivanchuk's best resistance with multiple fine attacking ideas.

King walks are not unheard of in chess, but the seemingly out-of-the-blue advance of Nigel Short's king with 31.Kh2!!, 32.Kg3!!, 33.Kh4!!, and 33.Kg5!! intending 34.Kh6!! with mate on g7 is unique in the annals of chess.

Akiba Rubinstein is arguably the greatest player to have never become world champion. His tournament victories in 1911 marked one of the most dominant years by any chess player. In this game against a fellow Polish player, he reeled off one of the most inspiring combinations of all time. What chess player can forget 22...Rxc3!! and 23...Rxd2!! followed by the patient 25...Rh3!! with inevitable mate?

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Now, it has been known that apart from tactics the next best thing to improve upon as an amateur [sub-2200 player] is the endgame. But of course, there have been truckload of books teaching endgames from practical standpoint to theoretical one. I have mentioned the choicest books on 'endgame training' and would like all of you to rate them. Of course it might be helpful for a person if some books have a recommended minimum / maximum rating range. [You don't want experts reading Chess for Dummies, now do you? :)]

The OP said endgame course and I take that to mean a structured systematic study of the endgame. However, I think there are at least two aspects to endgame study:1) Technical positions (or techniques)2) Endgame strategy, i.e. how to play/what to do.So to properly study endgames, you have to study both.I think that Pandolfini's book is good in one respect, it demonstrate the technique in chunks and teaches you to recognise and remember critical positions.I think Silman's book is at equivalent level with Pandolfini. If OP has already finished with Pandolfini, very little else to learn from Silman (I might be wrong!). Better to move on to a slightly more advanced book.For technical endgame positions:I have to make a plug for John Nunn who (relatively recently) wrote Understanding Chess Endgames (which I think won a prize?) which is an introd/intermediate course on endgames and followed that up with Chess Endings 1 and Chess Endings 2 which are more advanced. But taken together forms a pretty good course in endgames.Provided you like Nunn's style and the fact he has organised the books in short chapter-like chunks. Have a look at the sample pages.Of course, as mentioned by Jupp53, there is Dvoretsky's Endgame Manual, of which Aagaard has said you need to learn the 222 endgame positions (in blue) which is the absolute minimum if you are serious about chess.As also mentioned, there is the alternative (very good alternative) by Karsten Muller, Fundamental Chess Endgames.As also mentioned, there is Jesus de la Villa's book on the 100 endgames you need to know.There is also a 2007 book by Chess Stars, Marat Makarov's The Endgame.Glenn Flear has written a series of books (culminating in his nuckie or NQE) on the endgame which can be utilised as a course in endgame.Similarly, Efstratios Grivas has done the same.Edmar mednis has also written a series of books which taken together comprised a course in endgame. He also has a book updated by Colin Crouch Rate Your Endgame, which is endgame by the solitaire method which a ChessPubber here is a geat fan of.2) Endgame strategy:Here I suggest besides the technical endgames as found in Nunn, Dvoretsky, Muller, Marat, you should also read Muller's How to play Endgames which I believe is his update of the Shereshevsky's classic Endgame Strategy. Of course the latter is also a candidate book and still good after all these years.Also Jacob Aagaard's Excelling at Technical Chess is in the same vein.There is also Lars Bo Hansen's Secrets Of Chess Endgame Strategy.(and others)For fun/puzzles there is Ger van Perlo's Endgame Tactics, Polgar's massive endgame book, and also Convekta's book on endgames puzzles, The Manual Of Chess Endings - Chess School 4.As an alternative to endgame study as found in books above, i.e., very dry technical positions, and if you are happy to play chess and learn chess with not much of an ambition other than to improve gradually, my suggestion is to learn endgames by playing through annotated games.I recently came across Steve Giddins' The Greatest Ever Chess Endgames which is fun. There are similar books like these.If you are more serious, then John Donaldson&Nikolay Minev's 2 vol collection of Akiba Rubenstein's games (annotated) is an alternative which has been endorsed by very strong soviet GMs such as Gelfand.An alternative to Rubenstein would be Tibor Karolyi's book on Karpov's endgames. Bear in mind you have to like Karolyi's style's of variations upon variations.I believe there is an earlier book entitled Endgame Virtuoso but consist of games by Smyslov.More advanced/not-comprehnesive stuff: Speelman's Analysing the Endgame; Hawkins' Amateur to IM, and lots more others.PS, I like Slobodan Mirkovic's Chess School series but you must put up with very bad english. Part of what makes a good endgame book (or any chess book) is the choice of games, explanations etc, and I think the choice of games and examples in Mirkovic's books are good. Be aware that the books (vols 1-4) are not just endgame books but each comprise of three sections, tactics, strategy and endgame.PSS. Endgame is something which needs to be enjoyed for one to persist. I find technical books very dry and have not been able to persist. I am now trying complete games method and will tackle Rubenstein and Karolyi's Karpov games soon. So, find a book you enjoy.

Understanding Chess Endings by Nunn is a great place to start, then his Nunn's Chess Endings Volumes. Dvoretsky's Endgame Manual is great, and an excellent capstone I think is Encyclopedia of Chess Endings, where you already understand the hows and whys of various themes (such as the best place for a king in queen and pawn on the seventh vs. queen, how to force a win or draw from specific pawn placements, Lucena, short side defense, pantsing the bishop, that bishops are typically stronger against a knight in an endgame especially with pawns on both sides, when to achieve a pawn breakthrough, etc.) but want further drilling of and study of concrete examples. After understanding comes chunking, or improving our endgame pattern memory banks for greater confidence and intuition.

I started playing chess seriously about a month ago and I don't know how I can improve my game. I found that people recommend reading books, but I find it difficult to comprehend them, I started looking for lessons but did not know where to look. Any ideas? Thanks 2351a5e196

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