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From: tim@ism780c.UUCP (Tim Smith)
Newsgroups: net.games.chess
Subject: Re: How and What to Study? ( ==> how much chess skill is learned? )
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Date: Fri, 3-Jan-86 23:35:59 EST
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[ How does one improve at chess ]

I have been told that postal chess will help.  People I know who 
have played in postal tournements say they find that their 
over-the-board rating goes up quite a bit after a postal 
tournement.

In article <840@spp2.UUCP> kovalsky@spp2.UUCP (Bruce Kovalsky) writes:
>
> Becoming a chess master is no easy task, even if you spend hours
> and hours studying the game.  I believe that you must have quite
> a bit of innate ability in order to reach a Master's rating,
> something which not many people have.

This could be an intersting topic for discussion here:  How good should
one be able to get at chess without any innate chess skill?

Opinions I have heard range from "Any reasonably intellegent person can
reach World Championship level if he/she tries hard enough" to "you should
be able to reach expert, but to get past that you have to be special"

Reply to the net.
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Tim Smith       sdcrdcf!ism780c!tim || ima!ism780!tim || ihnp4!cithep!tim