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ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Grandmaster Igor
Smirnov
Igor Smirnov is a chess Grandmaster, coach, and holder of a Master’s
degree in psychology.
He’s the founder of the “Remote Chess Academy” company that has
helped thousands of students worldwide to improve their results.
GM Smirnov has developed lots of chess video lessons, articles,

webinars and training courses, including the famous courses “The
Grandmaster’s Secrets”, “The Grandmaster’s Positional
Understanding”, and “Calculate Till Mate”.
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ABOUT THE BOOK
How to Succeed in Chess
‘Nowadays it is quite easy to find information about almost

anything on the internet, including chess. However, not all the
information out there is of high quality.
We have selected for you all of our best lessons about

succeeding in chess so that you can directly spend your time
and efforts wisely instead of trying to find those secrets
elsewhere, where they might not be revealed at all!’
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
1 The Value Of Chess ................................................. 5
2 The Value Of Chess (Part-2) ................................... 9
3 The necessary factor of your chess progress ....... 13
4 Creativity in Chess .................................................. 17
4 simple ways to deal with time trouble!

5 …………………………………………............................. 21
6 The Secret of Success ..............................................27
7 Stages Of Improvement ..........................................30
8 Your Chess Goals.......................................................34
Bonus Video lessons.................................................37
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CHAPTER ONE
The Value Of Chess
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The Value Of Chess

General principles one should follow in the opening stage
First off, a word of warning: this lesson is NOT for everybody! Instead of
giving you answers, I’ll keep asking you questions. This isn’t some passive
reading stuff. You’ll need to keep THINKING all the time…Sounds
frightening?
Are you still here? Yes? Perfect. Let’s move forward.
Socrates asked a stranger:

– If you need flour and oil, then where will you go?
Young man smiled and answered slickly:
– On a market, certainly!
– If you need wisdom, then where will you go? – asked Socrates then.
The young man was somewhat dumbfounded and didn’t know how to reply.
– Then follow me, – said Socrates – I’ll show you!
Does chess help you in your common life? Does it develop your mental
skills?
I’m pretty sure your non-chess playing friends are asking you these
questions quite often. Perhaps you were thinking about it yourself too.
It’s really important to answer that question. Think about it – if it’s just for
having fun and killing time, then perhaps it’s not worth going through years
of training to get better at it.
BUT if it’s MORE than that, if it indeed develops your mental and
psychological skills, then you can be confident that all of the time you spent
training and playing chess isn’t wasted.
So, does chess help you in your EVERYDAY life?
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There are 2 obvious answers here:
(1) YES – Chess helps improve our mental skills… the same skills that we
use in everyday life. That said, it should also help us succeed in other
facets of life as well.
(2) NO – There are no REAL interactions between chess and other facets of
life. Think about it: will knowing certain lines of the Sicilian Defense help
you in, say, managing your workforce? Well, if the million-dollar
question in a quiz show you’re in is chess related, then maybe it could
help. BUT how remote is that?!
These 2 answers seems the most natural, but they are mutually exclusive.
Why this happened?
First, let’s think why chess game should be useful.
• This is training for our brain.

Physical sport trains your muscles.
Chess trains your brain
• Chess is NOT just a game, it’s a model. By

studying this model, we can discover some
general rules. Then we can spread these
strategic principles to any other spheres of
life
Let me give you an analogy. By the way, Socrates told it about 2500 years
ago.
How do you understand people as a whole? This is too huge and difficult of
a task. Instead you can understand yourself, which should lead to a better
understanding of people in general since you are a typical representative of
the latter. Deeply knowing yourself will lead to knowing everybody else
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In the same way, we can use chess (model) to understand general rules (in
life).
Thus these are 2 main benefits that chess can give you in common life:
Chess develops your mental skills. Chess gives you deep strategic
understanding. Both of which are VALUABLE in everyday living and decision
making.
That’s why I strongly believe that chess players should be WISE personalities!
• They should have developed this habit of THINKING, analyzing the

situation and finding the right solution (when most people make
impulsive decisions often).
• They should be able to predict the consequences of their actions for
many “moves” ahead.
• They should have good concentration and think effectively.
• They should create long-term plans, based on their strategic
understanding.
All in all, chess players should have a habit of THINKING. This should make
them “modern philosophers”, successful in chess as well as in any other
area!
This brings us to the final question: “Why this usually doesn’t happen in
reality?” Please, think about it.

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CHAPTER TWO
The Value Of Chess

(Part-2)
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The Value Of Chess (Part-2)
In the first part of this lesson we were talking about a positive influence of
chess on you:
Chess trains your mental skills.

Chess gives you deep understanding of strategical principles.
If that sounds logical, then why is it that MOST chess players can’t seem to
apply their trained mental skills in reality? Read on!
Tyler Durden: Do you know what a duvet is?

Narrator: It’s a comforter…
Tyler Durden: It’s a blanket. Just a blanket. Now why do guys like you and
me know what a duvet is? Is this essential to our survival, in the hunter-
gatherer sense of the word? No. What are we then?
Narrator: …Consumers?
Tyler Durden: Right. We are consumers.

Chuck Palahniuk “Fight Club”
That’s it! That’s the reason why! We are so accustomed to and reliant on
ready-made solutions, that we forget to think independently.
If you are unsure about something in chess, then what do you do?
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You open a book, search in a database or turn on a computer engine, don’t

you? And there’s nothing wrong with it. Information is easily accessible so
we ought to take advantage of it. That’s how MOST chess players roll in this
day and age of computer and internet. But don’t we miss something?
Yeah, we forget to think by ourselves.
Maybe you are thinking: “Oh thank you Captain Obvious. You just saved the
day by stating what’s so apparent.”
Really? Well, read on.
I’ve had a lot of different pupils. When I’ve just started to train someone, I
often was shocked about how MANY obvious mistakes he/she made. By the
way, lots of those obvious mistakes were suggested by their previous
coaches.
I’ll mention only a few examples (otherwise this lesson will be endless ).
Chess player spend quite a lot of time getting his openings in shape.
While analyzing his/her games, I see that the evaluation of a position
changes many times during 1 game. That said, the final result has no
relation with his position after an opening!
The conclusion suggests itself: openings are not very important for this
player now; he should eliminate his more significant weaknesses first.
Why didn’t he/she understand it by himself?
Chess player spend time on learning theoretical endgame positions, BUT

they never happened in his real games. Perhaps this is not the most
effective training for him, isn’t it?
Chess player solve thousands of tactical puzzles, while he almost never

make combinations in his real games. This should have forced him to
change something in his training, right?
Chess player wants to change his results. At the same time he/she does
NOT want to change his way of training/thinking/playing. Isn’t it obvious
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Einstein once defined insanity as ‘doing the same thing over and over
again… and expecting different results’. Perhaps it’s about time we cure
ourselves of that insanity and change the way we approach chess training?
The list may go on and on…
Such mistakes look obvious (especially after I explained them ). BUT then
why do people keep making them? Please, think about it.

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CHAPTER THREE
The necessary factor of

your chess progress
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The necessary factor of your

chess progress.
In this lesson I would like to discuss an important aspect of chess, which can
determine one’s success or failure in a game. I believe strongly that this will
have a great impact on your chess development.
I am referring to OBJECTIVITY. Maybe you think to yourself, “Come on, what

is so great about playing objectivity?”
Let me explain. Chess players often wonder “why can’t I make any
progress?” Let’s think about this question. It has great practical value.
First, progress inherently is change. So it follows: if you are getting better, it

means that you are changing. So if you want to make progress, you should
be ready to make changes in yourself and the way you think about the
game.
This seems obvious, however you should ask yourself: “Am I REALLY ready
for change?” Am I ready to change my opening repertoire? Am I ready to
change my playing style? What about my thinking habits?
If you honestly answer “Yes!”, then there is a good chance you have what it
takes to succeed in chess!
Let’s go forward. The next logical question is: “what exactly should you
change?” Of course you should change your weaknesses. You will work on
them and it will bring you the progress you desire.
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This brings us to the last

question: “How to begin this
process?”
Here is the answer: you

should admit your mistakes.
Everyone understands this in
general. However, we don’t
do it really, because it hurts.
Though it can be unpleasant,
it is the only way to make real
progress.
Now it is time for you to ask yourself “Am I really objective? I know that you
will all answer
“YES!” This is the first indicator of partiality!
Examples of personal bias in

chess
Let me give you some examples of personal bias in chess. Please, read
carefully, just to ensure that these statements don’t describes you
1) Chess players often try to find an excuse of their loss. It usually goes
something like this:
– “Today I didn’t feel well.”
– “I had a winning position, but lost my concentration and played
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– “I slept badly/not enough”

– “I’ve had some personal problems.”
– “I was tired because of a trip/something else”
This list can go on… and these factors can have an influence on a chess
player. Let me tell you something though.
I know a lot of titled players, who take part in tournaments not only to
get prizes and to make chess progress, they also go to have a good
time! And they do! These players then show up the next morning for
chess…and their condition is… well, not so good They almost didn’t
sleep and woke up with a hangover. Of course this is not the best
example of a sport routine. HOWEVER, they still find a way to win!
What am I trying to illustrate with this example? I want you to admit

one simple thing: your chess results depend on your chess skills. That is
just it. All other arguments are mainly lame excuses!
2) Here is another example of partiality: a chess player starts thinking

that he understands chess at a much higher level than he actually
does.
I receive a lot of feedback (e-mails etc.) from my pupils and customers.

Some of them write something like this:
– I play at an expert level in chess.
– I am an advanced player.
– I play on the master/fm/gm level.
– I play well and now I only need to improve some openings to reach
fm/im/gm level.
– I know all the basic chess ideas already.
When I ask such person about his rating, he usually answers: “It is not
so high now, but…” I stop reading right after the word “but”.
Your rating is the most objective indicator of your skill. All other
evaluations of your skills are just your dreams.
Please, hear me out, it is not my intention to offend you. I want to help

you to be more objective and stimulate your chess development!

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CHAPTER FOUR
Creativity in Chess
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Creativity in Chess
Do you remember Pareto’s principle? 80% of your efforts bring you 20%
of results. You can spend a lot of time on chess and get a very little
progress. Unfortunately it happens with most of chess players.
At the same time you have a great alternative: you can focus on those
20% of your efforts, which bring you 80% of results. Therefore your
progress will be huge and fast.
Here we come to the 3rd item: “How to make your future training
(progress) more effective than it was previously?” It is the key point
for your future success/failure. Therefore let’s talk about it in more
details.
Here is the answer: you should imitate successful players.
It is a great mistake to try to find your own way. I’ll give you more
specific example. Let’s say you want to create a good opening repertoire.
What do you do in such a situation? You start thinking about it (you
start testing different openings and so).
However, it is a mistake! Thousands (maybe millions) of chess players

have thought about it already. They have tested different openings. They
spent many years on an extensive training and practice. And they came
to the final conclusions already. Now you can skip this long way and
take the final conclusions immediately!
That’s why you do NOT need to think. You need to imitate successful
experience.
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I’ve told you about an opening repertoire, but the same idea is right for
all other stuff as well.
I can tell you that 95% of players have very similar problems. Therefore
most of your problems in chess are very typical. A lot of players have
experienced these problems; and some of them have found the
solutions!
You don’t need to make all the mistakes by yourself. I’ll continue the
example with an opening repertoire. Look at the top players. They all
play the same opening lines; while every weak player has his own,
unique, losing openings
You don’t need to reinvent the wheel. It is not creativity, it is stupidity.

An importance of creativity is overrated nowadays. Imitation is often
simpler, faster and more effective.
Let me show you some customers’ feedback.
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I gained 237 points since starting your course in August. Thank you!!
Michel.
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In September of this year I bought your video courses,Grandmaster

secrets,Grandmaster openings lab and your winning plan. I took two of
our pupils from the high school and taught them the principles I learned
in your courses.
The result is Melvin won gold in the u/20 team. Breyton won silver in
the u/18 team. It was the South African Junior Chess Championships. It
is a prestiges national event for juniors in South Africa. This is the first
time our children from Greenpoint won medals at the SAJCC.
It was always a dream of mine that we win medals at SAJCC. Can I take
this opportunity of thanking you for sharing your knowledge with us,
without you it would not be possible to have achieved all this success.
Loyd.
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I receive a lot of such e-mails regularly. A lot of customers report 200-

300 points rating increase in several months! Such results are
unbelievable for most chess players. Do you know what the secret is?
They don’t invent the wheel, but imitate successful experience instead.

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CHAPTER FIVE
4 simple ways to deal with

time trouble!
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4 simple ways to deal with time

trouble!
Recently, I have received a couple
e-mails from my students who are
having a hard time dealing with
time trouble. And if you are one of
those chess players who
experiences problems with this
dilemma often, then you are in for
a treat. Right here, I will lay down
certain tips and tricks that will help
you combat this over-the-board
(OTB) problem.
Very often, we see the following situation: a player plays a good game,
gets an advantage, but then appears in a time trouble! Under the time
pressure, he makes an annoying mistake and even loses in the end!
Such a situation is certainly frustrating. And the recommendations I’m

about to give will help set yourself free from the chains of the time
trouble.
1) First and foremost, there is a great difference

between thinking and having doubts:
In most cases, a chess player THINKS only during the first few minutes
after the opponent makes his move. After that, he starts to check the
SAME variations again and again. Not contented, he starts to worry
about the consequences, and try to find 100% ideal move, and the cycle
goes on and on.
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Guess what? This cycle doesn’t help at all! This only creates chaos in
his head and totally mixes things up. Finally, after going through the
same variations, worrying about the consequences, and vainly searching
for the perfect move, he does something ridiculous… and you should
know what happens next.
What to do?
To avoid this typical, VERY frustrating, and game-breaking scenario, keep

these in mind:
• Do NOT calculate 1 variation 2 times: You may not be the BEST

calculator around but when you sit at the board, you only have
yourself to trust.
• In most cases you should NOT spend more than 3 minutes on 1
move. You may need to spend more time on crucial and highly
tactical positions, but 3 minutes is the average for every move.
This also brings us to the next advice:
2) Use your intuition:
Look, even a computer –

whether it’s Rybka, Fritz, or even
that supercomputer Hydra,
CANNOT calculate all of the
lines until the end and come to
a 100 percent correct
conclusion. Having said that, we
may conclude that trying to
judge the outcome of the game
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Oftentimes, you will find yourself in a situation where you have 2 or 3 logical
moves and there’s no way you can calculate the lines until the end or come to a
certain conclusion.
What to do?
Use your intuition! This means you should choose a move, which came to your
mind FIRST (which seemed good for you at first sight on a position) and then do
only the needed calculation to verify that the move is tactically good. This is a very
powerful advice! Check it in your practice, and you’ll see that it works great!
3) Make normal moves:
Most often, a game is decided by a mistake of

one player (NOT by a brilliant play of his
opponent). Thus, it’s more important to avoid
mistakes, than to find 100% perfect moves all
the time.
Don’t be too harsh on yourself. Don’t try to

make 100% correct moves all the time. NORMAL
move is good enough in most cases.
Even the greatest players like Karpov follow this advice! The former
World Champion, when faced with a branching point in one of his
games, go for the sound, normal, and generally good move… the one
that requires the least amount of calculation.
He didn’t win ALL of his games, BUT he won MOST of them. Heck! He is
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Before getting into the fourth advise, let me tell you one little story.
Recently I got a message from a chess player, a close follower of my

blog to be precise. He explained his chess problems, and one of them
was constant time trouble. I recommended one of my chess courses,
which contains the answers to most of his questions.
He answered: “Yes, I was thinking about your courses since the last
month, but couldn’t decide which one to start with!”
I could not hold the smile and laugh a bit. It’s not surprising that he has
a time trouble in chess, isn’t it? He thought about one simple decision
during more than a month!!!
In an old manual for Samurais, I found the following quote (chess is a

model of war by the way, so samurai’s wisdom is suitable for chess):
“Man should make a decision during 7 breathing in. If thinking takes

too long, the result will be lamentable.”
So the fourth advice is….
4) Decide and act quickly!
If you have time troubles in

chess, then you probably
have problems when it
comes to making decisions
in life. Procrastination is a
habit you want to get rid of.
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I know many people who spent tons of time to decide which of my

courses to order. Meanwhile, they lost the most important thing – TIME.
It was much better to make ANY decision, but to make it quickly and to
start going forward.
ANY decision moves you forward! If your decision was wrong, then
you will know that this thing does not work. You learn something from
it, and it’s going to be useful in the future. Then you will start finding
another solution and you will always keep going forward!
On the other hand, the one who doesn’t make a decision (or postpone
it) will be stuck on his current place. He’ll have no progress whatsoever!
That person who goes forward (who makes a decision and learns from
it), will easily outrun him!
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CHAPTER SIX
The Secret of Success
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The Secret of Success

One of the major characteristic features of successful players is
their SERIOUS attitude towards learning.
There is a huge difference between educational and entertainment

materials.
–> When you read a book (or watch

a film etc) at your leisure – you read
it once, have some joy and forget it.
That’s OK because you achieved
your purpose.
–> When studying educational materials we automatically use this method

too. However, this method is not suitable for learning. Probably you will
have joy, but not the positive practical results.
When you study the chess material (book, video etc) for the 1st time, you
familiarize yourself with new ideas. You are far away from a real
understanding still! You can’t understand something deeply until you have
PRACTICED it for some time.
Here is a mini-plan for proper studying of new chess material:
1. Study it. Here you familiarize yourself with this information.
2. Tr y to apply it practically. Now you will REALLY understand what the

author talked about. Of course, you will also face some unexpected
problems/questions.
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3. Study the material again. This time, you will understand the material much
better and will notice some new useful ideas. Also, you will find the answers
to your questions (from the 2nd item).
Some of the previous moves may look strange. However, this is a popular
variation and has been played many times by strong Grandmasters. I guess
this is the reason why the Black player decided to implement it.
Now let’s pass the opening stage and come to the position where opening
theory ends.
Maybe you think that your chess training is serious enough. Then I can tell
you one thing. I receive quite a lot of questions about my training courses.
95% of these questions were answered in the course already! However,
people overlooked it, because they did NOT study the material SERIOUSLY.
I can’t resist from quoting my student’s e-mail, which I received a few

minutes ago:
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“Hello Igor,
I hope everything is well with you. I really enjoy your Breaking Stereotypes
series. I was happy to see the first one about playing h3, I had asked a
question about it during your recent survey.
I am now going through the 300-spurt stage of your self-taught GM course.
I was a 1300 player for 10 years and now reached 1600 in about 6 months.
My next goal is 1800.
Kind regards,
Michel”
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That’s what a SERIOUS study can give you!
I recommend that you repeat my past lessons (from paid courses or from
this blog). Pay attention to the topics from your problem areas. Perhaps you
have seen these lessons already. Nevertheless, I strongly recommend that
you study them again! It will be useful for sure.
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CHAPTER SEVEN
Stages Of Improvement
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Stages Of Improvement
In this lesson, I’ll discuss and outline the typical stages of

improvement that a chess player goes through. But, why do you have
to read this? Simple. By knowing the stages of a chess players
development, you can understand YOUR situation better – where you’re
at in the hierarchy and what you need to do to realize your potentials
more objectively.
This is especially important for those who train rather on their own –
chess players who live in a small city; don’t have a chess coach or a lot
of chess friends, etc.
If this is true for you, sometimes you may feel confused. Your chess
progress isn’t as great as you hoped for and there are many bumps and
difficulties along the way.
You may start having doubts: “Maybe I’m not as talented as others?”
“Maybe I’m doing something wrong?” and the list of unclear questions
go on.
You think that something is wrong with you, while in fact MOST players
experience the same problems.
As a chess coach, I’ve observed many players’ progress. I can tell you
that, while you may be unique as an individual and chess player, your
problems are not.
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Stage 1: Beginner
You are just a beginner and you are excited about the game. You start
reading tutorial materials, playing games with friends, etc.
Most probably your study goes in a haphazard fashion. Nevertheless, you

experience a good progress (since your knowledge is almost zero, any new
information is valuable for you). You have won some nice games, and that
motivates you to keep learning!
Stage 2: Intermediate Player
At this point, you face some stronger folks, who always give you a spanking.
Your progress slows down significantly compared to the previous stage.

And you come to realize that your training should become more serious
and structured if you want to get to the next level.
At this stage people usually start creating some kind of training plans (split
the training to opening/middlegame/endgame study, learn strategy and
tactics).
All in all your training becomes more solid and systematized. This leads to
rather solid progress – it’s not fast but it’s sure (GRADUALLY).
You obtained some pleasant victories against opponent’s who previously

was too strong for you.
Stage 3: Advanced Player
You reached a certain level (which is not

that bad, but of course you want to gain
much more). Your progress suddenly
stopped. You keep training, but it
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Perhaps you experience the following problems:
• You play quite a lot of moves rather intuitively (based on rules and what
you understand), but sometimes, it doesn’t pan out well.
• You already know a lot of rules and principles about chess, but rather
than help, it makes your thinking random (not well systematized).
• These two problems lead to unstable results. Sometimes you can enjoy
winning against a significantly stronger player; but on off-days you suffer
from annoying losses.
• You can get a dominating position, but have problems with a realization
of your advantage.
• Sometimes you make annoying blunders, which spoil a well-played
game.
• While facing stronger players, you feel that they play in tougher style.
They exhaust ALL possibilities, they start pressuring you right from the
opening etc.
First, let me bring up some good news: you are not alone!
Most players out there experience similar problems. So don’t worry: there’s
nothing wrong with you. Quite the contrary, this is a very typical situation.
At this point, you need to make your game TOUGHER and more DYNAMIC.
• Relying on your intuition (understanding) is not enough anymore. You

need to calculate variations CONSTANTLY, use all of the chances and
opportunities at the board, and always keep an eye on opponent’s
possibilities.
• Start playing more solid and more aggressive opening.
• Your chess knowledge (which is quite wide already) should be well-
systematized. Otherwise, they will only confuse you.

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CHAPTER EIGHT
Your Chess Goals
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Your Chess Goals
let’s think about your chess goals for the

next year. I have 2 recommendations for you:
1. Your goals should be realistic.

2. Your goals should be a bit more than
realistic.
Perhaps it sounds illogical. Let me explain.
First, your goals should be realistic. For example, you may expect 10
points augmentation of your rating per every tournament. Therefore you
may calculate how many tournaments you need to play to gain 100
rating points.
Then you may calculate how many tournaments you play per year
(based on your past experience). Finally, you can calculate how long will
it take for you to reach your goal (to gain 100 points).
Of course your planning may be different. I just gave you an example of

a REALISTIC planning.
You may say: “I want it all and I want it now!” Unfortunately it doesn’t
work like this practically. Your goals may be very HIGH, but it should be
your LONG-TERM goals. Then everything is fine.
Secondly, your goals should be a bit more than realistic.
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Your goals should motivate you to work hard! One of the key ideas
concerning a training is any sport is “the principle of a high, but
surmountable difficulty”.
That’s why your goals should be a bit higher than you expect normally.
They should thrill and inspire you!
Have you set your chess goals for this year already? If no – then do it
now! Here I’d like to give you another useful advice: make this work in
written.
When you need to write something, you have to formulate it clearly. This will
help you to clarify everything. Also you will save these goals and will refresh
them sometimes during the next year. Finally, writing your goals is like
giving a self-promise! It becomes “a document”, an obligation.
I gave you 2 tasks so far:
1. Make a sum up (analyze your chess progress in this year).

2. Set your chess goals for the next year.
Here we come to the most interesting part: How to make your future
training (progress) more effective than it was previously?
Probably you’ve heard about the 80/20 rule (Pareto’s principle). “20% of
your efforts give you 80% results” . An opposite rule is fair as well: “80% of
your efforts bring you only 20% of your results”.
It explains why some players progress much faster than others.

Therefore you need to focus on the most effective ways of training and
forget about all other stuff.
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Bonus Videos
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@chess_media - Igor Smirnov - How to Succeed in Chess

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ABOUT THE AUTHOR

GM Smirnov has developed lots of chess video lessons, articles,

ABOUT THE BOOK

How to Succeed in Chess

‘Nowadays it is quite easy to find information about almost

We have selected for you all of our best lessons about

1 The Value Of Chess ................................................. 5

2 The Value Of Chess (Part-2) ................................... 9

3 The necessary factor of your chess progress ....... 13

4 Creativity in Chess .................................................. 17

4 simple ways to deal with time trouble!

6 The Secret of Success ..............................................27

7 Stages Of Improvement ..........................................30

8 Your Chess Goals.......................................................34

Bonus Video lessons.................................................37

The Value Of Chess

The Value Of Chess

Are you still here? Yes? Perfect. Let’s move forward.

Socrates asked a stranger:

So, does chess help you in your EVERYDAY life?

Chapter-1: The Value Of Chess 6

There are 2 obvious answers here:

First, let’s think why chess game should be useful.

• This is training for our brain.

• Chess is NOT just a game, it’s a model. By

Chapter-1: The Value Of Chess 7

• They should have developed this habit of THINKING, analyzing the

Chapter-1: The Value Of Chess 8

The Value Of Chess

The Value Of Chess (Part-2)

Chess trains your mental skills.

Tyler Durden: Do you know what a duvet is?

Tyler Durden: Right. We are consumers.

Chapter-2: The Value Of Chess (Part-2) 10

You open a book, search in a database or turn on a computer engine, don’t

Yeah, we forget to think by ourselves.

Really? Well, read on.

Chess player spend time on learning theoretical endgame positions, BUT

Chess player solve thousands of tactical puzzles, while he almost never

Chapter-2: The Value Of Chess (Part-2) 11

The list may go on and on…

Chapter-2: The Value Of Chess (Part-2) 12

The necessary factor of

The necessary factor of your

I am referring to OBJECTIVITY. Maybe you think to yourself, “Come on, what

First, progress inherently is change. So it follows: if you are getting better, it

Chapter-3: The necessary factor of your chess progress 14

This brings us to the last

Here is the answer: you

“YES!” This is the first indicator of partiality!

Examples of personal bias in

Chapter-3: The necessary factor of your chess progress 15

– “I slept badly/not enough”

What am I trying to illustrate with this example? I want you to admit

2) Here is another example of partiality: a chess player starts thinking

I receive a lot of feedback (e-mails etc.) from my pupils and customers.

Please, hear me out, it is not my intention to offend you. I want to help

Chapter-3: The necessary factor of your chess progress 16

Here is the answer: you should imitate successful players.

However, it is a mistake! Thousands (maybe millions) of chess players

Chapter-4: Creativity in Chess 18