Following the 'Jan Sendall and Paul Clark inaugural Memorial Handicap Rapidplay Chess Tournament' where I scored for me a respectable 2.5/7 given my fifteen years absence from the chess scene; I'm now working my way through the complete games of Mikhail Tal; former World Chess Champion.
Tal is recognised as a dashing, imaginative and sacrificial player who acquired positional sense. If there is anyone who I should model myself on then it has to be Mikhail Tal. Simply because my previous play as a sacrificial player was all about the King hunt, whereas the new me has to adapt and develop if my chess re-birth is to be a success.
When I finish this book, I'm going to begin looking at ideas and themes and avoid getting bogged down in the quagmire of opening theory. I intend that the next chess publications that I study will be the ones recommended by my good friend Adam. From time to time I shall try to update the Blog with my chess progress. Meanwhile it's back to the coffee and the book and the pocket chess set that have dug out and dusted off. Today I looked at two games, tomorrow it will be a third.
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