Theo Todman's Web Page - Paper Abstracts

Notes

1. There’s a page that helps you draw up a plan – using their courses, obviously:-
   → ChessMood: Chess Study Plans
2. The plan for me is Elo 1500-2000, which is old ECF 107-173:-
   → ChessMood: Chess Study Plans for Advanced Players
3. There’s a further plan for those over Elo 2000, but I doubt this will ever be relevant, given I’m now aged over 70 and have never been rated above ECF 158.
   → ChessMood: Chess Study Plans for Above 2000
4. The relevant Plan had a number of useful-looking papers, which I’ve downloaded (and printed to pdf and paper). They are listed further down. Reading them ought to wait for now, with the exception of these four:-.
   1. ChessMood: How to get better at Chess
   2. ChessMood: The Bold unbold technique
   3. ChessMood: Chess Time Controls: Which is Best Suited to You?
   4. ChessMood: Analyzing Blitz Chess Games: Why? And How to Do it!
      
5. Courses: Various ChessMood courses are recommended for people at my level. I will try to have a sniff at them this month. See the following ‘Papers’ for details:-
   • "Grigoryan (Avetik) - ChessMood - Courses: Tactics",
   • "Grigoryan (Avetik) - ChessMood - Courses: Openings",
   • "Grigoryan (Avetik) - ChessMood - Courses: Middle Game", and
   • "Grigoryan (Avetik) - ChessMood - Courses: End Game"
6. As noted above, the relevant Plan had a number of useful-looking papers, which I’ve downloaded (and printed to pdf and paper). They are given below (including those listed above). Reading these extras ought to wait for now, but my current plan is to read and absorb them once my ‘free month’ expires, and only then consider taking out a subscription.
   1. Repeat: ChessMood: How to get better at Chess
   2. ChessMood: Grandmaster Guide to Learn and Improve chess tactics
   3. Repeat: ChessMood: The Bold unbold technique
   4. Repeat: ChessMood: Chess Time Controls: Which is Best Suited to You?
   5. ChessMood: Golden method to increase rating in chess
   6. Repeat: ChessMood: Analyzing Blitz Chess Games: Why? And How to Do it!
   7. ChessMood: Detachment
   8. ChessMood: Lasting love for chess
   9. ChessMood: If you want to achieve more you need to deserve more
   10. ChessMood: What is the but that is holding you back
   11. ChessMood: Legal cheating
       
7. Some papers that came up in other reading:-
   1. ChessMood: Does bullet chess make you better
   2. ChessMood: When should you Change your opening repertoire
   3. ChessMood: Learn the right lessons from your mistakes
   4. ChessMood: The most effective way to create chess pgn files
   5. ChessMood: The Risks of Playing Chess When You Don't Want to