Mikhail Marin Biography

Mikhail learned to play early, studied chess on Soviet books translated into Romanian. A huge impact on the boy’s determination to engage in the game in cages had a match for the world championship of the world. Due to his studies, Mikhail began active chess performances only in the middle of X: he first reached the final of the Romania championship, won the country's team championship in Polytechnic and performed in the European Cup.

The breakthrough came in the year: Marine sensationally divided the second place in the East European zonal with Kiril Georgiev and the Volodzimezh Schmidt, and then won the additional competition. In a strong in the composition of the interzonal shirak, the Romanian chess player finished in the middle of the table and was noted by the victory over the Dragolyub Velimirovich.

According to the results of the competition, Marin became an international master. Mikhail has been entering the Olympic team of the country since the year, wins the Romanian championship three times. In his first tournament, Marin took a bronze medal on the board - 9 out of 13 with the only lesion from Alexander Belyavsky. By the year, Mikhail had completed all the scores of the grandmaster and soon supplied the recognized leader Florin Georgiu on the first board of the national team.

In the "zero" classic of Romanian chess began to write books, most of which became bestsellers. Books about defense, attack in the chess party, open principles, the Spanish party and super roundwright in Revio Emilia, in co-authorship with Yuri Garret, were highly appreciated by fans of chess, but two volumes under the name “Learn“ Learn “Learning from Chess Legends” brought genuine fame.

For several years, Mikhail Marin edited the magazine “Chess Extrapress”, but did not lose his practical strength - in the year his rating rose to the mark of his lace the grandmaster, preparing for the Olympics in Baku, already the twelfth in his career. The famous chess player now conveys his rich experience to young Romanian players. In the year, Marin married the Russian chess player Maria Yugina.

Calculation of the Mittelshli course in the course you will find 18 examples that are divided into 5 sections, as well as 30 test positions that are divided into 6 sections. Each test position is supported by detailed analysis and explanations that you can check after the solution. Contents Chapter 1 Tactics in the Service of Strategy Chapter 2 Long options Chapter 3 Typical Psychological Errors Chapter 4 Majes Practical Tasks Description from the author calculation, tactical vision, combinations, these topics closely related and most popular topics of chess books.

This is easy to understand, since debut books are inevitably outdated, the endgame requires a very accurate and painstaking analysis, while the systematic training of strategy sounds very abstract. With so many of them, many excellent books on tactics can be asked about the question: can you say something new on this issue? It seems to me that in many cases, the classification system used in such books does not reveal some important aspects.

Sorting examples in accordance with the central theme of the combination system, in most cases, is reasonable, but only offers a “surface review”. And when I try to delve into, I feel that there are books that offer a very abstract, apparently, logical explanation of tactical events, but it is not necessarily what corresponds to the mental process of players. In the course you will find 18 examples that are divided into 5 sections, as well as 30 test positions, which are divided into 6 sections.

Each test position is backed up by extensive analysis and explanations that you can check after the solution. Now let's briefly consider these sections.

Tactics in the service of strategy I consider chess as a game of global harmony, so the difference between different stages of the game or between tactics and strategy makes sense only for didactic reasons. In the debut, I basically think about the contours of Mittelshpil, and in Mittelschpile one of my main problems is the type of endguspile, in which I can land. Tactics and strategy are also closely connected, and in the supposedly perfect game should go hand in hand.

Here is one of my favorite examples of this kind: starting with this article, before each game I will insert a diagram showing a critical moment. Before moving on to a commented party, it is useful to think about the question asked on each such diagram. This position was achieved in my game against Yakovenko played in the year. With their last move, can black allow themselves to take a horse?

Long complexity options associated with the calculation process can have a different nature. There is a certain charm provoked by long combinations, but if there is no alternative to the main line, a strong player should not have problems with a calculation of ten or more moves ahead. Of course, everything is much more complicated if the enemy has a choice, whether at the beginning, at a later stage or in the entire combination, even if the main thematic line lasts, say, four moves.Or, the calculation may be difficult if the main line implies quiet moves without a shah or taking a figure.

Depending on the degree of complexity of the calculation tree, intuition should also be involved. There are positions where everything is possible only in correspondence chess or during home training. It is always useful to have several protective insurance, for example, the possibility of an eternal shah or the return of the material with approximate equality. This will give confidence when starting the combination, since the initial calculation will remain unpunished if the game goes not according to the plan.

In this section, I provide 4 commented parties that illustrate typical methods for calculating long options. Typical psychological errors have two typical psychological errors when calculating long lines of branches: 1 you see that you are the calculation leads to a good position, but you do not have the courage to go to this option. And then you are too stubbornly starting to look for the defense of the enemy.

This can lead to the fact that you will see ghosts and convince yourself that "the option does not work." As we see, these are two opposite cases, and there are no simple tips to avoid them. The natural advice would be to maintain a balance between the costs of its resources and the opponent, but this is only a part. Once again, I would like to mention understanding and intuition.

This applies to the assessment of the starting position and the question of whether everything has matured for specific actions. Not least, protective insurance should help a person start counting long options. The worst that can happen in this case is to lose an advantage, but not lose. To illustrate the psychological aspects of the calculation, I offer 3 classic games and 1 instructive study of Kasparyan.

Candidates from the time of Kotov have been written a lot about the passes of candidates. But I always had a vague feeling that it was an attempt to make our game look scientific to an even greater extent than it is, and that most players really do not think and do not calculate according to this scheme. At least for me, the theory of the passes of candidates means something else. This is far from the first time I use the concept of "intuition." A strong player must feel what he should do in critical positions, and count, just to check if his idea is true.

Here are a few typical situations. In this case, it is important to correctly evaluate the positions obtained both objectively and from a practical point of view. The latter belongs to the game "Change of Glash" unilaterally, if it is better, or, conversely, to maintain the chances of a counter -toleure, if the opposite is used. All of the above cases are illustrated in 3 examples of 2 games and 1 study.

You can play a very good game, systematically replaying your opponent with peaceful strategic means, but against approximately the same opponent you can rarely win this method alone. There comes a moment when someone feels that a specific, unusual action is required, but then you need to effectively “see” the initial course of the winning line or even the whole idea.

But moving from a “quiet” regime to a particular is not always easy psychologically. Sometimes the task is complicated by the confidence of the enemy or even his bluff. It can also happen differently. After a long protection of an unpleasant position, a person is so accustomed to this situation that there may be problems with the detection of enemy gross errors.

I have to make an important remark. The terms “vision” and “blindness” are tactical ideas that are unknown from ordinary books with positions for decisions. If the player does not find a combination based on a well-known topic, this means that either his chess culture is not sufficiently developed, or he simply did not see it due to fatigue and pressure. I know this feeling very well, it is something like a nightmare.

Practical tasks in this section will find 30 interactive test positions that are divided into 6 subsections - long options, candidates, unjustified optimism, missed opportunities, vision and intuition, as well as the procedure for action and determination. Below I present to you 5 interactive tests regarding the calculation of long options.