It is very important to learn to weigh up objectively (or assess intuitively) the totality of the competitive and psychological factors.

It is very important to learn to weigh up objectively (or assess intuitively) the totality of the competitive and psychological factors.

Training in analysis (like any other form of chess training) should be treated very seriously.

As a rule, pawn endings have a forced character, and they can be worked out conclusively.

I do not know to whom the aphorism 'There are no sound studies, only ones that haven't been busted yet' belongs, but it has measure of truth in it.

Black is now in desperate need of a good idea. Or, to put it standard chess notation, +-

It is hardly useful if you trustingly play through variation after variation from a book. It is a great deal more useful and more interesting if you take part actively in the analysis, find something yourself, and try to refute some of the author's conclusions.