New: Regina Theissl-Pokorna - Time Management in Chess

by ChessBase Shop - 29/12/2023

We’ve all experienced the evils of time trouble in our chess life. Time is ticking, panic is rising, and we make moves that we wouldn’t consider if we had more time on our clock. From winning to losing – all our effort is wasted because we couldn’t manage our time more efficiently. What is worse – we keep repeating this mistake over and over again. If you are someone who have trouble managing your time, this would be a good Fritztrainer to pick and improve your time management skills in chess. Photo: ChessBase

Time Management in Chess

By Regina Theissl-Pokorna

Time trouble is one of the most common chess player bad habits. One can’t really avoid spending time on complicated positions, but they are not the only issue. There are other factors, like insufficient opening preparation, perfectionism, missing self-confidence, etc.

In this video course, I’d like to assist you with handling time management during your game. How to avoid it, and how to react when you’ve no other choice. I’ve organized this course into 2 parts.

In the first part I focus on the methods and techniques that will help you to avoid time trouble, such as: strict opening repertoire, using chess intuition wisely, identifying critical moments, deciding between several possible moves, prophylactic thinking and how to avoid perfectionism in chess.

In the second part, the focus lies on the moments in time trouble. How players of different strength and experience solve their problems at the board, but also why many of them (incl. strong grandmasters) failed.

I cover topics like: looking for chances in a worse position and finding the best ways out of it; how and why to keep emotions under the control; complicated and complex positions; why to be cautious with the changes in a pawn structure in time trouble; and when and if to convert positions into (pawn) endgames.

• Video running time: 7 hours 20 minutes

• Interactive training including video feedback

• Extra: Best practice PDF

System requirements

Minimum:

Dual Core, 2 GB RAM, DirectX 11, graphics card with 256 MB RAM, Windows Media Player 9, ChessBase 14/Fritz 16 or included Reader and internet connection for program activation.

Recommended:

PC Intel Core i5 (Quadcore), 4 GB RAM, Windows 10, DirectX 11 graphics card with 512 MB RAM or better, 100% DirectX 10 compatible sound card, Windows Media Player 11 and internet connection for program activation.

MacOSX

Minimum: MacOS "Yosemite" 10.10

Streaming

iPad, Tablet, Desktop, Laptop etc.

About Regina Theissl-Pokorna

Regina Theissl-Pokorna, currently the #1 female chess-player in Austria, is a Woman Grandmaster who enjoyed early success in European and World youth championships. She participated in several chess Olympiads, and her highest ELO rating was 2429 in 2003. Her grandest achievements were 1st place at the European Team Championship and victory at Junior G20 in 1999. In 2015, she moved from the Slovak to the Austrian Chess Federation. Theissl-Pokorna is Chair of the Women‘s Commission of the European Chess Union and is strongly committed to promoting girls’ and women’s chess in Europe.