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Welcome -- to the marvelous - almost magical world of self-development: You will find this site a must for finding ways to improve yourself – and thereby improving your chess game as a result. Examine this site – and you will quickly see that it is a front end for the entire chess world. Catch the latest in chess news and chess articles. Links are provided to other chess sites. Chess databases can be accessed in the reference area, online chess forums can be reached from this site and if you need a chess book, chess program or chess supplies – you’ll find a wealth of offerings all on this site. It is also a portal for Personal Improvement products – with pertinent and well-reviewed books on the subject, news and articles to put you in the know about the world of personal improvement, programs to boost your brainpower, and even resources to change the way you think about yourself - about your life, and about your world. The personal improvement products represented on this site target improving those aspects of one’ s personality that will negatively impact solid chess performance. However, as many of these products are customizable, they are perfectly suited for helping you to find happiness, become rich or – to attain any other goal that you might be reaching for. Personal development is vital to good chess. Many people don’t believe that – and frankly – I just don’t get it. How can any chess player truly believe that his or her emotional make-up has no effect on the outcome of their games? My personal theory is that regular players seem to see strong players rise without ever considering their emotional make-up, so that they feel that they can do the same. A strong player will talk a lot about how much time she spent on the Ruy Lopez - but she NEVER talks about the required emotional and personal growth required to put her where she is. However – if you learn anything during your exploration of this site – it is that seeing – is the most fallible of talents. NOBODY gets to be that good at anything without going the extra mile. People with such games have been willing to suffer what the regular guy has not. He has had to overcome limitations, to develop discipline, to go dateless to the prom – all for the love of the game. Now, most of the people who visit this site ”like” the game of chess – but - love it? I think not. We love girls (or guys), time at the beach, and travel during the spring. However – when we DO make time for a game of chess – we want to win. If you attended chess school – you would be required to take inventory of yourself and to overcome whatever personal development issues stood between you and a solid game of chess. Your instructor - likely a master - will be adept at recognizing your weaknesses and pointing them up to you. However, as you have no plans to under-go such training – you’ve got to inventory your own emotional make-up and take steps to gain control of your deficiencies. The personal imrprovement products on this site can help you – but if you don’t believe that you HAVE any deficiencies (huh?), then you really don’t have any need of any help. Congratulations! Look – don’t consider this training as drudgery. Have fun with it. Your whole LIFE will improve – not just your chess game. Most of these products make the process easy – requiring you to just do things as you always did – with perhaps an MP3 issuing from your computer speakers, or a subliminal message generator whispering sweet nothings at you over your computer screen as you carry on your daily business. Confidence, patience, organized thinking, disciplined problem-solving methodologies, and maturity are all recognized as critical characteristics of a solid chess player. They are also all recognized as the earmark characteristics of a well-balanced human being. So, what might YOU need to fix? Well, there is little room for immaturity, self-sabotage, petulance, timidity, self-absorption, and self- doubt in a well-played chess game. Clearly, If you plan to play solid chess – then you will need the tools of personal development to get there. Does everybody need to improve his or her mind, memory or personal attributes in order to be a solid chess player? Yeah. I think so. If one has the commitment of – say – a master – then he (or she) will eventually reach a point where achieving personal growth cannot be avoided. Her handlers will require it. His game will demand it and, his opponents will stipulate it. But reaching this point may take years. As for you - as a non-pro - you may NEVER reach this point without an equalizer. Personal growth training is that equalizer. You can wait and hope that you will stumble upon the proper path – or you can take action - now. Build your MIND – and your game will follow. So – now you know why we all are here. I have always been intensely interested in personal improvement, having read the books and used the products – even earned my college degree that way – over distance education - but there is no such thing as an expert at such a thing. I can tell you that - given where I am right now – there is little question that those products worked well for me. Enabled me to step forward - to challenge the unknown - to take risks. If you try them - these products WILL change your life – but it all begins with a germ of faith. Nobody gave ME any guarantees. YOU won't get any either. At this point, let us get our prospective roles straight. I'm not the expert. I'm the WEB master. If anything – YOU are the expert. All of the opinions that matter are out there – in YOUR heads. MY job is to maintain a place where we can disseminate the information to those who are interested. YOUR role is to express your thoughts via the discussion forum; to suggest additional materials that you'd like to see on site, to suggest site improvements and to submit materials to the site that you feel would edify the chess community. There is currently, on the net, no one place where these discussions can come together. This will be a one-stop web site where BOTH the needs of chess AND the needs of Personal Development can be met. I won't get it all right the first time but we have definitely got a good start. With your suggestions, blog contributions and articles - we should have this site performing its intended purpose in no time. What YOU get is a place to discuss with like-minded people the game of chess, the world of self- help psychology and the ability of each to influence the other. New tools will be suggested through our discussions – perhaps even invented – right here in this forum - that will improve our chess games by changing our psychology – not simply by reading and solving puzzles as we do now. Jump in now and help me to think outside the box. You don’t have to know what you are talking about. Just tell us how you FEEL. We’ll do the same – and perhaps in the end we will ALL learn something. Please post your thoughts for discussion, and be sure to let your friends know that you posted your thoughts here - so that they know where to find them. Just feel free to share the link to this site to bring your friends into the forum. Those of you who arrived here hoping to purchase the Chess-Stack Training Stacks should not despair. They are still available on this site and can be reached from the “PRODUCTS” page. Here is a product that serves as a stellar example for improving chess play by improving how one thinks - rather than simply relying heavily on informational content. Right now, this is still the only product of it's kind but I hope that this forum will change this. I’m hoping that other ideas surface for additional products that train the chess mind. What do I mean? Click the “PRODUCTS”; link to check out the concept on which the training stacks are based. I think you will be intrigued. Fascinated? Please - jump in now - at the pioneering level - and offer suggestions, criticisms, site improvements, and your unique perspective to this effort. Share the link so that others can come aboard - and let's all build a truly useful site wherein the longer you stay, truly - the more you learn. Thanks, Your Webmaster. |
