Humane Chess

If through an analysis of one's own performance in chess , errors are discovered in the practical development of the game, and most likely one may find them every now and then, the first thing to consider in favor of their correction is what kind of error it is, technical or conceptual. The main causes of these inaccuracies are always due to carelessness in the systemic approach to thinking and the lack of theoretical preparation . Themes that, in order to be intuitively assimilated, must be covered consequently from the constant review of the independent theoretical preparation and the mental processes that influence the selection of moves, as each type of error also corresponds to ideological subtleties that should be pondered in order to know the specific means of working on their correction and instructional dissolution. Technical errors In this classification are the inaccuracies corresponding to the systematic approach to thinking, caused by confusions in the order of cal...

I have often thought that, both in life and in chess, progress always comes from confronting difficulties, and that it depends on each one whether to consider those difficulties as truly insurmountable paradigms, or as opportunities for self-knowledge and establishing which direction to take or not, in view of the uncertainties that may arise regarding the safe realization of any useful initiative. This attitude often implies contemplating and accepting the subjective reality, nurturing it without seeking vain, selfish, and nontranscendental gratifications that do not align with any expectation or ideal of improving and perfecting objectively a productive skill. Not an insignificant labor, in my opinion, if one considers that much of what a human being with genuine faith in the value of integral ideals may be capable of achieving depends on it.  After all, collective advances are based on individual efforts, but these individual efforts can never be considered transcendent if they ...

This is a memorandum of the ideas that I consider developing in my training program and presenting in the mid-long term in this medium as exhortations to conscious and practical work in chess, in parallel to the writing of a treatise about independent chess training based on the first entry published in this blog, God willing. I also share them here as an introspective reference for the reader who is interested at improving his/her game, as well as for organizing and integrating the themes that I will be posting. Positional theory map. Compilation of the essential terminology to understand and interpret objectively the dialectic of chess, in order to assimilate concepts and facts of the game applicable to other fields of cognition and self-knowledge. 1. Elements of Initiative. 1.1.2. Opening Character. Obstacles to overcome and dissolve in chess training. Conceptualizations about the difficulties to overcome in this discipline and guide its learning efficiently. Complementary reading...