If you are a chess player, reading this blog may revolutionize your game, and your life. If you are not a chess player…hey, it’s 300 words, it should take you under 5 minutes, humor me.
My good friend Bill Karneges has a book out called “The Six Power Moves of Chess.”
His method really works
Since I am, personally, a pretty mediocre chess player, let me just tell you about Bill. I met him through chess. I was playing a game at the old Terminal Bar on Soukenicka back in ’98 when he walked over and suggested we play a game. “I’ll beat you,” he said, “but I might be able to teach you a few things.”
Fucking smartass, I thought, but I played him. He beat me. And he taught me a few things.
Bill is an intelligent, extremely methodical person who knows what he wants and goes after it with single minded determination. He has been teaching English at our school for a long time, and he’s one of the best teachers I’ve ever known.
At the time, he was touting what he called “The Chicago Method” which was based on the Sean Connery soliloquy from “The Untouchables.” “They pull a knife, you pull a gun. They put one of your guys in the hospital, you put one of theirs in the morgue.”
Even then, he was talking about writing a book, but he soon came up with a more elaborate method. It is the same philosophy, but the six power moves is a guide to prioritizing, a checklist, a way of knowing which move is a knife and which move is a gun, a method for examining all of the possibilities available to you in any given situation in a few seconds and knowing which move is the strongest.
Which is kind of a helpful thing to have in life, as well as in chess. You should check it out.
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