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| From Associative Thinking: How to Connect Patterns and Creativity in Chess by Mikhail Shereshevsky (Highlighted in IM John Watson's "Books and Beyond" column in the August 2025 Chess Life) |
“How does one achieve a high level of play in all stages of a chess game? It seems that everything is simple: learn your openings, work on typical middlegame positions, practice calculating variations and improve your endgame technique. But as soon as you start working on any stage of a chess game, you will encounter the same problem — a huge load on the memory. … In any case, you will try to learn most of the information mechanically, which, of course, is boring and ineffective. What should you do? Stop rote learning, turn on your curiosity, come up with a vivid image for the technique being studied and remember it as an association. And most likely, at the right moment you will recognize it and understand how you need to act.”
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