Comments on: Anonymity in chess blogs http://www.eddins.net/steve/chess/2006/11/09/52 Fri, 03 Dec 2010 15:41:19 -0500 hourly 1 By: Mark Goodwin http://www.eddins.net/steve/chess/2006/11/09/52/comment-page-1#comment-946 Mark Goodwin Fri, 30 Mar 2007 13:25:30 +0000 http://www.eddins.net/steve/chess/2006/11/09/52#comment-946 Anonymity in Chess blogs is most likely directly related to ego. Some chess players *love* to pontificate online about how great a player they are or their recent conquests and remain anonymous so those claims can go unchecked. I have not hidden nor have I made pubic - directly - who I am, but of course, this post reveals that information, and I am fine with it. Does it matter that I am a Cat. A player? Does that change the value of the advice? Does it make the advice less useful? Of course not. 2 + 2 = 4 no matter how you slice it. It is one thing to give advice about self-training methods and make amazing claims and another to actually use those methods and see results. I can say I have seen positive results in my play using the methods I described in my blog at http://chess-training.blogspot.com. Unfortunately, most people will not be so honest with themselves and the public with their results and their self-training methods. I firmly believe I can reach 2200 without enlisting a chess teacher consistently (I occasionally do take a lesson to make sure I am on track with my training. My last lesson was in Jan. 2007) and by implementing the self-training methods I have blogged about. I also play on ICC in the T4545 league - I am on Wooden Ballet in the U1800 section. This is my primary test bed for my training, and I get one good game a week to evaluate my current thought processes. I also avoid Blitz like the plague - for one, I suck at it, and for two, it is detrimental to my thought processes in chess. If I do play blitz, I only do it on *off* days - days where I am not training and daysd I am not playing classical chess. If I manage to get up to the MetroWest Club some evening, I will look you up. I have played there on occasion. I found this post via Technorati.com. Anonymity in Chess blogs is most likely directly related to ego. Some chess players *love* to pontificate online about how great a player they are or their recent conquests and remain anonymous so those claims can go unchecked. I have not hidden nor have I made pubic – directly – who I am, but of course, this post reveals that information, and I am fine with it. Does it matter that I am a Cat. A player? Does that change the value of the advice? Does it make the advice less useful? Of course not. 2 + 2 = 4 no matter how you slice it.

It is one thing to give advice about self-training methods and make amazing claims and another to actually use those methods and see results. I can say I have seen positive results in my play using the methods I described in my blog at http://chess-training.blogspot.com. Unfortunately, most people will not be so honest with themselves and the public with their results and their self-training methods. I firmly believe I can reach 2200 without enlisting a chess teacher consistently (I occasionally do take a lesson to make sure I am on track with my training. My last lesson was in Jan. 2007) and by implementing the self-training methods I have blogged about.

I also play on ICC in the T4545 league – I am on Wooden Ballet in the U1800 section. This is my primary test bed for my training, and I get one good game a week to evaluate my current thought processes.

I also avoid Blitz like the plague – for one, I suck at it, and for two, it is detrimental to my thought processes in chess. If I do play blitz, I only do it on *off* days – days where I am not training and daysd I am not playing classical chess.

If I manage to get up to the MetroWest Club some evening, I will look you up. I have played there on occasion.

I found this post via Technorati.com.

]]> By: Steve http://www.eddins.net/steve/chess/2006/11/09/52/comment-page-1#comment-103 Steve Mon, 13 Nov 2006 13:43:10 +0000 http://www.eddins.net/steve/chess/2006/11/09/52#comment-103 Thanks, Josh and Guillaume. Thanks, Josh and Guillaume.

]]> By: Josh http://www.eddins.net/steve/chess/2006/11/09/52/comment-page-1#comment-102 Josh Mon, 13 Nov 2006 13:35:27 +0000 http://www.eddins.net/steve/chess/2006/11/09/52#comment-102 I think its because people don't really feel "safe" online (wether that makes sense or not I leave it those people smarter than myself). I don't reveal my identity but I don't actively try to disguise the facts so if you really wanted to know who I am then all you'd have to do is look up the results of one of the tournaments I said I played in and there I am, Josh. Boylston chess blog, J'adoube, Globular, and Chess Confessions, have all, at one time or another, said who they are. There are others who have said they want to keep it all anonymous so the people they play against won't learn something about their game, which is funny, but who am I to argue? I think its because people don’t really feel “safe” online (wether that makes sense or not I leave it those people smarter than myself). I don’t reveal my identity but I don’t actively try to disguise the facts so if you really wanted to know who I am then all you’d have to do is look up the results of one of the tournaments I said I played in and there I am, Josh.
Boylston chess blog, J’adoube, Globular, and Chess Confessions, have all, at one time or another, said who they are.
There are others who have said they want to keep it all anonymous so the people they play against won’t learn something about their game, which is funny, but who am I to argue?

]]> By: Guillaume http://www.eddins.net/steve/chess/2006/11/09/52/comment-page-1#comment-96 Guillaume Sun, 12 Nov 2006 11:20:26 +0000 http://www.eddins.net/steve/chess/2006/11/09/52#comment-96 I was doing the same remark to myself ! Visit my blog chess-mind.blogspot.com in French.. ! I was doing the same remark to myself ! Visit my blog

chess-mind.blogspot.com

in French.. !

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