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- D.A. Carson
Sunday, November 4, 2007
We've got about 15 active members in our humble, correspondence-style chess club here at Thinklings.
I'm proud to say that one of our chess club members, Robofriven, has an excellent interview on chessvideos.tv with International Master and chess author, Jeremy Silman.
Here's a taste:
Q: What was your training schedule like when you were competing the most?
JS: If I played in an international tournament, I would live, eat, and breathe chess. In Hungary, I would prepare for 4 hours in the evening for the next day's game, then another 4 hours in the morning before the game. Then I would repeat that over and over for each game. There were, of course, distractions (women, insane directors or players, money issues, sub-par accommodations, lack of edible food, etc.), but such things are also part of the whole experience of competitive chess. I have to admit that I really miss the intensity of those years!
Check out the whole interview here.
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Comments on "Interview With Chess Great, Jeremy Silman":
2. Shrode
- 11/05/2007 3:29 pm CST
forgive my ignorance, but how do you prepare for 4 hours for a game of chess? What do you do?
3. Crossbow
- 11/05/2007 5:10 pm CST
Why, you fire up WOPR and play a nice game of Global Thermonuclear War, of course....
4. Bird
- 11/05/2007 5:38 pm CST
Shrode,
It depends on the player. You can easily spend hours studying openings and tactics alone. Not to mention the literally -- and I do mean literally -- unlimited possibilities of end game scenarios. No two games of chess are alike.
5. slumberjack
- 11/05/2007 11:51 pm CST
I remember seeing a photograph of Bobby Ficher once, while at a banquet, holding an empty chess board and staring at it oblivious to all around him. Of course for the man that once said, "Chess is life", the board was not empty.
I recall as well, a photograph of Joe Frasier, running down the road at dawn sweating profusely.
The anology could be drawn that both men were in training.
Yep! Rowboat, did a great job with the interview. His friend Slumby, is proud of him.