11/5/2011 – Greek grandmaster Efstratios Grivas is a highly experienced chess trainer and chess author. He has participated in the ChessBase sponsored program of training sessions for talented young players. In addition he has recorded a number of training DVDs, the latest of which deals with rook handling in the endgame, with four hours of personal video instructions. Do not miss this one.
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Efstratios
Grivas: Chess Expertise Step by Step
Vol. 3: Rook Handling
Rook handling and endings in general constitute one of the most fascinating
elements in chess. Rich in both tactical and strategic possibilities, they offer
us the opportunity to marvel at its endless creative potential and unique ideas.
Of all chess endings (pawn, queen, rook, bishop and knight), rook endings are
the ones encountered most frequently. Like all aspects of chess technique, rook
endings (and in general the correct handling of rooks) encompass a significant
amount of theoretical and repeated motifs, which we have to be aware of –
just like our openings. In this way we will be able to make correct decisions
at important junctures of the game, decisions that will either promise us victory
or allow us to secure the draw.
This DVD, called 'Rook Handling', tries to cover important parts of this field
and help you to assimilate knowledge and to understand in depth the proper handling
of rooks in certain cases. We shall examine how to keep our rook active, how
to trap a rook, how not to lose a drawn rook ending, how to handle technical
rook endings, how to successfully transfer our rook, how to enhance cooperation
between rook and knight and finally how to defend against a knight and three
pawns.
To be honest, this is just a small amount of the huge quantity of material
that one has to learn about rooks, but in any case it is a good start! Video
running time: four hours.
Video sampler from Efstratios Grivas: Chess Expertise Step by Step,
Vol. 3: Rook Handling
Earlier this year GM Grivas held a series of lectures for young German talents,
in the offices of ChessBase in Hamburg. The aim of this series of lectures is
to enable participants to teach young and gifted players in schools and chess
clubs, and to educate trainers and chess teachers not only in their own countries
but also on an international basis.
Successful chess trainer GM Efstratios Grivas
The material started to develop in early 2004 and was used Grivas' personal
training sessions, where he developed a system based on serious sport (chess
is treated like a sport) and chess material (focusing on middlegame and endgame).
In 2005 this material was first printed in Greek, in a series of training books
called ‘Skakistiki Proponisi’ (six volumes, 680 pages). It then
appeared in an improved version in an English series ‘Chess
College’ (Gambit 2006, three volumes, translator Sotiris Logothetis)
and ‘Practical
Endgame Play’ (Everyman 2008). It was also translated (in another
improved version) into Turkish in 2009. Finally a further improved version appeared
in the latest FIDE book for training the trainers called ‘Syllabus’
(FIDE 2010, proofer Andrew Martin).
"I use this material to make my students understand that health and other
sport assets are valuable for a chess player's improvement, and not just never-end
analysis in openings," says Stratos (as his friends call him). "For
example in Turkey, where I am working on my program, all my trainees exercise
some physical activity in accordance with their chess education." Since
middle of 2006, when he started training youthful Turkish talents, three players
have made their grandmaster norms and two more are close to this goal. And a
number of IMs have also arisen in the process.
In the meantime Grivas, Adrian Mikhalchishin, Alexander Beliavsky and Georg
Mohr are cooperating to produce a total training system, which will appear in
30 books (around 3,000 pages) based on the idea of full training in the middle
and endgame. The work is being edited by the Turkish Chess Federation (which
has the rights) and for the moment it is printed only in the Turkish language.
The project started in early 2010 and it will be completed in 2012.
Trainers (and players) all over the world can use the series presented on
the ChessBase news page freely. Any question can be addressed directly to the
author: GrivasEfs (at) yahoo.co.uk.
Grivas in a lecture session for young German talents, for example...
WIM Melanie Ohme, 20, has been the poster girl for German chess since her
pre-teen days. IM and WGM Elisabeth Pähtz, 26, is the highest ranked female
player in Germany. "Elli" is the daughter of GM Thomas Pähtz and at nine won
her won her first German championship in the under-11 age group. In 2005 she
won the World Junior Chess Championship for girls.
FM Hagen Poetsch, 19, is rated 2408. Jonas Lampert is 13 and rated
2127
4. Chess Literature
The question concerning every young and ambitious chess player, apart from
the selection of the proper trainer, revolves around the selection of the proper
literature, through which he will be taught the secrets of chess.
The number of books available is truly immense and it is often hard to determine
which ones are most worthy of study. I am convinced that every good chess player
can suggest certain books, but opinions often differ, thus making the process
of selection more difficult.
The FIDE Trainers' Commission (TRG) provides a ‘subjective opinion’,
based on works we have found most useful, can be found in its website
and it is in accordance with the 80th FIDE Congress (Halkidiki 2009) decisions
and with the official endorsement by FIDE.
The lists were created in four languages (English, German, Russian and Spanish)
by respected and well-known trainers: Jeroen Bosch, Uwe Boensch, Anatoly Bykhovsky
and Miguel Illescas, respectively. The lists are offered in forms of zip, pdf,
xls and doc.
Just like an athlete collects his gear, a chess-player must collect those
books that will help him train better, more efficiently and productively. In
cooperation with his trainer he will be able to comprehend and absorb the knowledge
enclosed in them. And then he is 'doomed' to improve!
Further lectures to follow...
Efstratios Grivas
Efstratios Grivas is a grandmaster and highly experienced chess trainer
and chess author.
He lives in Athens, and he is also a FIDE Senior Trainer (Secretary of
the FIDE Trainers' Commission), an International FIDE Chess Arbiter and
an International FIDE Chess Organizer. He has represented his country
on a great many occasions, winning the fourth position in the World Junior
Championship 1985, an individual gold medal at the 1989 European Team
Championship and an individual silver medal at the 1998 Olympiad.
In 2010 he was awarded the worldwide highly important FIDE TRG Awards
– the Boleslavsky Medal (best author) for 2009.
Previous lectures
Grivas Training: Building a Repertoire 18.04.2011 – "In contrast to the middlegame
and the endgame, where theory is objective and accepted by everyone, in
the opening each chess player makes his choices in accordance with his
emotions and his personal experience. Noopeningloses, noopeningwins."
World renown chess trainer GM Efstratios Grivas explains how you should
build your repertoire in Part
3 of his lecture series.
Grivas Training: Getting to Know Ourselves 13.02.2011 – Young chess players need to be
able to identify the assets and weaknesses of their chess personalities.
Many trainers and trainees have wondered how this can be done properly.
The basic resource are one's recent games, which are used to produce an
"X-ray image" of one's chess-self. GM Efstratios Grivas, a world-class
trainer, tells us how to go about it, in Part
2 of his lecture series.
ChessBase Training with GM Efstratios Grivas (Part 1) 28.01.2011 – How do you help talented young
chess players to realize their potential? Working with a world-class trainer
is a good way to start. ChessBase has started a program to sponsor a series
of training sessions, which started, logically, in our offices in Hamburg.
Five young talents got a full-day session with an internationally known
chess coach, who has graciously placed his entire lecture at
our disposal.
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