A practical player is flexible, pragmatic, and not perfectionistic. Karpov was the greatest practical player of all time. Practical players tend to not get in time trouble, and they look for good moves, not the "best" one. Karpov said that he does not have a style, he simply tries to play very good moves fairly quickly. Its a very effective way to play.
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RoseQueen1985 wrote:
^ A practical player, to me, is someone who knows a few solid lines, and who doesn't get too involved with knowing every single bit of theory out there.
Instead of memorizing tons of theory on some hilighly theoritical opening, the practical players plays an opening that gives him a playable game no matter what his opponent does, even if with best play, the best he can hope for is equality.
He knows all of the tricks and traps in his variations, and can suddenly explode into an all out onslaught if his opponent allows him, or he can grind out the win in a slightly better end game.
All chess players, to be competent, need to be good at EVERYTHING. I don't care of you think you are Tigran Petrosian reborn, if your opponents leaves his king on the center, and is underdevloped, you SHOULD attack, no matter how positional you are. And if you are an attacking player, and your opponent has responded solidly, then you need to know how to play a slower game an accept the fact that you are not mating in 20 moves.
Interesting, I'm starting to think I'm becoming an practical player somewhere in my game. Are there any books out on practical players? Should I study some karpov games? Karpov struck me as a postional player, but I could be wrong.
Lights_Out wrote:
RoseQueen1985 wrote:
^ A practical player, to me, is someone who knows a few solid lines, and who doesn't get too involved with knowing every single bit of theory out there.
Instead of memorizing tons of theory on some hilighly theoritical opening, the practical players plays an opening that gives him a playable game no matter what his opponent does, even if with best play, the best he can hope for is equality.
He knows all of the tricks and traps in his variations, and can suddenly explode into an all out onslaught if his opponent allows him, or he can grind out the win in a slightly better end game.
All chess players, to be competent, need to be good at EVERYTHING. I don't care of you think you are Tigran Petrosian reborn, if your opponents leaves his king on the center, and is underdevloped, you SHOULD attack, no matter how positional you are. And if you are an attacking player, and your opponent has responded solidly, then you need to know how to play a slower game an accept the fact that you are not mating in 20 moves.
Interesting, I'm starting to think I'm becoming an practical player somewhere in my game. Are there any books out on practical players? Should I study some karpov games? Karpov struck me as a postional player, but I could be wrong.
The whole idea is that practical players need not study, they are kinaesthetic learners. If you learn more from playing many games, then you are a practical player.
If you want to study, then analyse your personality and try to find a style that fits you. Personally I am a tactical aggressive.
Regards,
FTP.
lunareyes has sand in his pussy.
There is no worse example of a "practical chess player" in the world than Karpov.
The man spent 12 hours a day for 50 years learning to play chess.
Dzindi is regarded as a joke among chess instructors and high-level players alike.
If you want to be practical -- to see the highest ratings boost in the shortest amount of time...
1 - Streamline your repertoire. You want to play as few kinds of positions as possible while leaving no gaping holes in your preparation. Something like a London System/French Rubinstein-Exchange-Advance/Stonewall Dutch combo should allow you to play anyone in any situation without giving away the advantage, while limiting your reasonable early-middlegame positions to about a dozen.
2 - Practice the hell out of tactics and endgames.
3 - Voila.
Whats the defintion of a practical player? Also, is it good for a chess player to have many different styles of play? For instance being an attacking player, postitional player?