The Tutorr's 15 Guidelines (Torr on survey. Part 8)

[The survey form] [1. The Mission] [2. Use a Database !] [3. Devote Yourself !] [4. Sour Losers] [5. Flexible concentration] [6. Holistic Chess] [7. Why move at all ?] [8. The Tutorr's 15 Guidelines] [9. Feedback page] [10. Downloads]

The Tutorr's 15 Guidelines for Improving Your Chess
The data from the chessplayer survey have been presented in the preceeding seven articles. The articles have presented 15 expert habits, 15 issues in which very strong players differ from weaker ones. In conclusion, these expert habits should be regarded as pointers for how you may improve your chess, yes, they should provide you inspiration and motivation for your future work and goal-setting. Why ? Because the habits reflect the beliefs and values and skills which the experts, the very strong chessplayers, have. Your goal could be to copy them and to model them.

Now, imagine in your mind that we extract the 15 habits of the experts and transform them into 15 useful guidelines for improving your chess. These are presented all together in the diagram below. Some readers will prefer to print this page right away.

You can pretend anything and master it !
Milton Erickson

The Fractal Chess Universe

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Clickable map: click on a habit to see the data from the survey (opens in a new window). Optimal screen resolution: 1024 * 768 pixels

Which guidelines apply to you ?
You may consider, now, which guidelines that inspire your current state of chessmind the most. Surely, I don't know which guidelines you hold in your mind now, and I don't know when you're going to apply them, where or against whom you're going to apply them, but my bet is that as you think about it now something in your unconscious have changed. And the funny thing is, your conscious mind don't even have the slightest idea what it is, all for the better. Spooky stuff, ehh ? How do you feel, now, about your next game of chess ?

You can model ! - you have always done so
How did you ever learn to ride a bycycle ? How did you ever learn to read and write, to speak foreign languages, to ...all the things you do ? You modeled someone ! You modeled your parents, your teachers, your mates. You saw and noticed what they did and you copied it...and copied it...until you mastered the skill and then developed your own personal style. You can model any human behaviour if you can master the beliefs, the specific thought processes and the physiology that lie behind it. So you can easily model a chess expert too...and it may be a very useful way for you to improve your chess. I think you know. It's an idea...and you can consider it, can you not ?

Final remarks
The world is always richer than the ideas we have about it. However, if you use the guidelines and the concept of playing holistic chess and let your chess step into the world of modeling, you may not only improve your chess but also expand your current awareness. Why ? Because modeling is the process that makes excellence explicit. And what you will experience is the peak experience of excellence yourself. Best wishes !

Just one thing

If you wish to download and study the original data (Excel-files) from the chessplayer survey or you wish to download this entire series of articles, please go to the download page.You will be send to the download page after you have filed the evaluation scheme. Please file the scheme !

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