Dan Heisman's Improve Your Chess
Learning Technique
National Master Dan Heisman is a name that is synonymous with excellence in chess coaching and teaching. Dan authors the award-winning Novice Nook column (winner of three Chess Journalists of America "Best Instruction" awards), aimed at improving adults, for chesscafe.com that are clearly written and offer very practical advice and tips on how to improve your game . In the new Improve Your Chess series, Dan provides instruction by reviewing amateur games played on ICC and showing where the players went wrong and how to improve.
Today's show: In a game between two lower rated players, White drops a piece in the opening, and then later another. Black initially shows good technique, but then blunders one piece back and gives back the second, leaving him still with a technically winning endgame. There Black goes more subtly wrong, probably throwing away the win, but instead of doing nothing and making Black show progress, White varies and allows Black again on a path to victory, this time achieved.