IECC Bulletin #10

      Published by the International Email Chess Club
       Devoted solely to E-Mail Correspondence Chess
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                      June 15, 1995
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Most-asked question from new members of IECC:

"How can I improve my game without paying someone like Bruce Pandolfini
a small fortune to give me the Josh Waitkin treatment?"

IECC's answer: enroll in our Chess Academy.

It's free. In IECC we believe in doing our best to be both friendly and
helpful, and we have a great bunch of people.

The classrooms consist of a number of small seminars with an instructor.
Most of the work is done by the students, with the instructor guiding
the work, rather than lecturing about the golden tidbits that we can all
find in great books like Wetzell's "Chess Master At Any Age," Silman's
"How To Reassess Your Chess, and Nimzovitch's "My System."

The homework is individual and group analysis IECC games, usually -- but
not limited to -- games played by the students.

Sometimes we play games, especially against higher rated players, where
we fall apart, but don't exactly know where we went wrong. As a group we
will analyze the game to discover better strategies methods to generate
effective plans of attack.

Sample objects of analysis:

1. In each game, what is the first critical point?

2. What were the viable candidate moves at those points?

3. How to evaluate those moves without becoming lost in a forest of
variations of candidates moves.

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* Lisa Powell                    Internet: rpowell@uoguelph.ca *
* Guelph, ON, Canada                                           *
*   CEO/TD of IECC: International Email Chess Club             *
*   Founder of IECG: International Email Chess Group           *
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