Before ROFL there was ROLF, Rolf Wetzell that is. He wrote Chessmaster at any age. I think it is one of the best books describing the evaporation of chess strength versus the aquiring of chess strength. He has a comprehensive study plan that makes sense.
It is really nothing new. Learn one opening and the resultant shots and strategic themes. Know the endings. Learn to manage your time. And most of all understand the ammount of work necessary to acchieve master level play. He spoke of memorizing openings in quints or 10 ply at a time.
So last night having finished scripting Larry Kaufman into Bookup, made a file just five moves deep and trained it. Even 5 moves is a lot to study. And it does not go far enough into what an opening is doing. Just the same it was a great practice.
Now I want to go deeply into particular lines. This would be more like Bent Larson who said that the way to get better in chess was to learn one thing really well, and then learn another thing really well.
An inch wide and a mile deep.
Kiss me Caissa!
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