Theo Todman's Web Page - Paper Abstracts

Notes

1. ’Must Reads’ for Chess Improvement (some are repeated from other aspects of the Courses):-
   1. Study:-
      1. ChessMood: Crossing the plateau and reaching 3000 on chess.com
      2. Repeat: ChessMood: Grandmaster Guide to Learn and Improve chess tactics
      3. ChessMood: How grandmasters memorize opening variations
      4. ChessMood: How to improve quality of your chess training
      5. ChessMood: The importance of having a training partner part 1
      6. ChessMood: How you can find the perfect training sparring partner part 2
      7. ChessMood: How to practice with your training sparring partner part 3
         
   2. Practice:-
      1. Repeat: ChessMood: Chess Time Controls: Which is Best Suited to You?
      2. Repeat: ChessMood: Golden method to increase rating in chess
      3. ChessMood: 5 crucial steps to stop bad results in chess
      4. ChessMood: Raise your chess rating by cutting your losses
      5. ChessMood: How to multiply good results in chess
      6. ChessMood: A secret weapon for handling tough positions and bad moods
         
   3. Fix:-
      1. Repeat: ChessMood: Analyzing Blitz Chess Games: Why? And How to Do it!
      2. ChessMood: Mistakes are not failures
      3. ChessMood: Learn the right lessons from your mistakes
         
   4. Mindset:-
      1. ChessMood: The must-learn skill to skyrocket your growth in chess
      2. Repeat: ChessMood: Detachment
      3. ChessMood: Ostrich syndrome
      4. ChessMood: To succeed at chess start with why
      5. ChessMood: The legal doping
      6. Repeat: ChessMood: Lasting love for chess
      7. Repeat: ChessMood: If you want to achieve more you need to deserve more
      8. Repeat: ChessMood: What is the but that is holding you back
      9. ChessMood: Be awesome
         
2. ‘Recommendations’ for non-ChessMood material; either supplementary or should you not wish to take out a subscription:-
   → ChessMood: Recommendations
3. Other Sites
   • There are other course providers that provide free information that are (sort of) allied to ChessMood. They do, however, then want you pay for the real stuff.
     1. "Studer (Noel) - Next Level Chess"
     2. Don't Move Until You See It
        → Don't Move Until You See It: Blindfold Trainer