Chess Game Compilation Books: Why and How to Study Them. With Dedicated Adult Improver Neal Bruce

[@Grandcapi]

I am 75 and continue to study chess every single day. My chess library keeps growing and I still play OTB. I was a Candidate Master when I was already past 60, and became an FM soon afterward. My strength is declining and I have lost hundreds of rating points. Kids are terrible in our days...

[@fritzgw7094]

I started playing late as well, and I'm in my fifties and trying to get better. It would be good to have a title next to your name, even though I know it's not an easy task.

[@tiramusubi]

Thanks for touching on this topic I've recently picked up Alekhine, Tal-Botvinnik, and Fischer game collections and been working on optimizing how I study them; wonderfully timeful topic Hope you feel better soon!

[@Socrates...]

Please do that that video on how to do solitaire chess, I really would like to know how to do it. Thanks

[@adam-ng9jj]

Great insight... let me add my 2ct: read all games annotated by Tarrasch, botvinnik, keres, and alekhine.

[@NotAllWhoWanderAreLost641]

A fellow Tarrasch enjoyer. Welcome!

[@fritzgw7094]

I hope you include FM Deniel Causo in your lengthy list of upcoming guests. He is a Filipino master and Wesley counts him as a good friend when they were starting up as young kids. I studied up on him and saw his channel, Biyaherong Coach. He started playing chess at a later age without a professional coach because he couldn't afford to employ one. He performed a lot of his own training and self-study on his own and discovered that he has some fantastic advice for beginners. I believe his highest real rating is 2400+ and he is rated 2500 online.

[@Chill_Pills]

My view is that when you are studying side variations in a chess book you shouldn't be moving the pieces at all (digitally or over the board). My logic is that when you calculate variations in a game you are not allowed to move pieces. Why do it when you train? It seems like it would hinder your development.

[@juddsadac7204]

Pachman's Decisive Games is the G O A T of all game collections. 🤩

[@kaibigan7084]

Thanks for a very nice video

[@PatrickRecordon]

Some relatives don’t know what to offer you for Christmas. I asked for Alekhine’s games (I already had one tome of his 100 best games). To my surprise, I received the Mc Farland book with ALL his games, facts about his life and plenty of lesser known games that he annotated. It’s a superb book, I recommend it.

[@Uchebuike]

Great episode, as always! But I am curious, how is Reasses Your Chess a step down from Simple Chess in your opinion Ben? I finished The Amateurs Mind a while ago, am finishing Simple Chess until the end of the week and started RYC but took a break. I enjoyed all of them however.

[@perpetualchesspodcast9143]

It's just my personal opinion, but I find Reassess Your Chess to be a bit of information overload. There is so much material presented that I worry it can be harder to implement in your games. Simple Chess is more bite size and directed. They are both very good books though

[@Uchebuike]

@@perpetualchesspodcast9143 Than I guess it's probably a good idea to try and implement into his own games what one took from book A and just then move to the next book, right? That makes organising your everyday training a bit harder doesn't it? If you wanted to improve every part of the game while having e.g. 2 hours a day and in the past spent 20% on the opening and 40% on the middle game and endgame, how could one use the time for the middlegame which was formerly used for reading a book on Strategy? For playing out middlegame positions or reviewing master games?

[@randallbrungardt6384]

Paul Morphy was not a chess professional; he was a young chess amateur (who walluped Europe's best players)

[@cjtuccio]

It would be great to get an update on Neal's rating Has he seen an increase? What is it currently?

[@perpetualchesspodcast9143]

He's doing well! Hoping to catch up with him on a pod soon

[@wilestrella7202]

This awesome asussual💪 Try to interview FM Deniel Causo of "biyaherong coach" channel.

[@timwheeler8523]

Great podcast. Too many ads. Don't be greedy.

[@wilestrella7202]

💯💯💯

[@tannerhachey2033]

I'm just curious, what's Neal's rating?

[@JustMe-999a]

Around 1800 last I heard

[@davidrobertson5996]

Brilliant podcast, gentlemen. Sorry to hear that you're ill; wishing you a speedy recovery from Covid. I was pleased to find that I have many of the books you mentioned, and Most Instructive Chess Games is close to the top of my own list. Delighted to see the Mammoth book of chess games up there. I have a paper copy and bough the most recent version as an e-book on Kindle, and find the hyperlinked games really useful. On Alekhine, sorry if you mentioned it, but "My best games of chess: 1908-1937" by the man himself is worth a look (ISBN 978-1-936490-65-3). Keep up the excellent work - off to listen to your review of the Mammoth book of chess games right now!